Impacts of Hurricane Storm Surge on Infrastructure Vulnerability for an Evolving Coastal Landscape

Katherine A. Anarde; Sabarethinam Kameshwar; John N. Irza; Jeffrey A. Nittrouer; Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba; Jamie E. Padgett; Antonia Sebastian; Philip B. Bedient

doi:10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000265

Impacts of Hurricane Storm Surge on Infrastructure Vulnerability for an Evolving Coastal Landscape

Katherine A. Anarde, Sabarethinam Kameshwar, John N. Irza, Jeffrey A. Nittrouer, Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba, Jamie E. Padgett, Antonia Sebastian, Philip B. Bedient

Earth and Environmental Studies

Montclair State University

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Predicting coastal infrastructure reliability during hurricane events is important for risk-based design and disaster planning, including delineating viable emergency response routes. Previous research has focused on either infrastructure vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding, or the impact of changing sea level and landforms on surge dynamics. This paper represents a multidisciplinary effort to provide an integrative model of the combined impacts of sea-level rise, landscape changes, and coastal flooding on the vulnerability of highway bridges - the only access points between barrier islands and mainland communities - during extreme storms. Coastal flooding is forward modeled for static projections of geomorphic change. First-order parameters that are adjusted include sea level and land surface elevation. These parameters are varied for each storm simulation to evaluate relative impact on the performance of bridges surrounding Freeport, Texas. Vulnerability is estimated by evaluating both the probability of structural failure given surge and wave loads as well as the time inundated. The probability of bridge failure is found to increase with storm intensity and sea level because bridge fragility increases with storm surge height. The impact of a shifting landscape on bridge accessibility is more complex; barrier island erosion and transgression can increase, decrease, or produce no change in inundation times for storms of different intensity due to changes in wind-setup and back-bay interactions. These results suggest that tying down bridge spans and elevating low-lying roadways approaching bridges may enhance efforts aimed at protecting critical infrastructure.

Original language	English
Article number	04017020
Journal	Natural Hazards Review
Volume	19
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000265
State	Published - Feb 1 2018

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Civil and Structural Engineering
General Environmental Science
General Social Sciences

Keywords

ADVanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC)
Barrier island
Bridges
Coastal erosion
Sea-level rise
Simulating WAves Nearshore (SWAN)
Storm surge fragility

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