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Project Type | Experimental |
Natural Hazard Type(s) | Tsunami |
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Awards | NSF Organization:CMMI | 0086571 |
Related Work | |
Keywords | Tsunami; Laboratory experiments; Debris; Optical measurements; Overland flow. |
The aim of this project was to understand the characteristics of tsunami debris behavior that can be used as a benchmark for numerical simulations of tsunami debris motion. The project investigated the tsunami inundation and debris movement in a large-scale wave basin. Experiments were conducted in the Directional Wave Basin (DWB) at the O. H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University. The debris consisted of rectangular boxes placed unconstrained on a flat section raised above the basin floor with no still water on the raised section. Seven model configurations were tested based on three main characteristics, including the number of boxes, the induced rotation, and the segmentation of groups. This dataset is the bases for the Related Work mentioned above. The quality and completeness of the data were verified by the team.