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Rapid Infrastructure Digitization to Support High-Fidelity Hurricane Risk Assessment
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posted on 2013-04-19, 00:00 authored by John Milton LaBarge, IIIRecent losses provide sobering evidence of the continued need for more effective hurricane risk assessment. Fortunately, advances in computational science have now made possible new venues to do so. However, this requires digitization of built environments to allow their evaluation within these computational spaces. Doing so presents a significant challenge, given the diversity and data insufficiency in the structural inventory and the need for an approach that readily scales. In response, this thesis proposes a framework to support automated digitization from publically available images. The framework has three main phases: exterior geometry extraction, interior geometry estimation, and subassembly modeling. Each phase was independently validated and, through the development of a heuristic schema founded in disciplinary perspectives, integrated to demonstrate the resulting fidelity of the approach. The end result is a digitization schema that can be readily applied to wood frame residential structures and is readily expandable to other construction typologies.
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Date Modified
2017-06-05Research Director(s)
Dr. Tracy Kijewski-CorreaCommittee Members
Dr. Andrew Kennedy Dr. Alexandros TaflanidisDegree
- Master of Science in Civil Engineering
Degree Level
- Master's Thesis
Language
- English
Alternate Identifier
etd-04192013-121543Publisher
University of Notre DameProgram Name
- Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences
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