METHOD OF IDENTIFYING AFFECTOR ON RESIDENTIAL DAMAGE DUE TO STRONG WIND

—Analysis of influencing factor with quantified structural conditions of houses—

Abstract

It is known that wind damage to houses is more strongly affected by maximum gusts rather than maximum wind speeds. However it is not easy to indicate a meaningful relationship of the damage to the wind properties, because the wind damage is strongly affected by the numerous conditions of construction. In this paper, we proposed a new damage analysis procedure using correlation analysis with the quantified structural conditions of houses. This method can estimate more clearly that the structural conditions of houses as well as the gust speeds information are a significant factor to wind damage spreading.