Re: Anti-tsunami tech and architecture


"Fabrizio J Bonsignore" <fbonsignore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jim Blair wrote:
> (snip)
> > It would help just to build the parking UNDER large building near the
beach
> > and elevate the first floor one story, supported by "stilts".
>
> It sounds great, less architectural than I had in mind but more
> engineer like, thouugh it would depend on the size of the tsunami. I
> don't know the force with which it can actually crash a building, but
> it may be, depending on the stability of the floorbed of the zone that
> the whole building would collapse!

Hi,

Sure a big enough wave could collapse any building. But my idea is that a
given wave hitting a solid structure or wall will exert a lot more force on
it than if it hits only a few solid posts, with most of the water passing
around the posts and flowing under the building.

This is the design used in some of the Mississippi flood plane dorms at the
UW-La Crosse. Several times in the past the river has flooded the parking
lots under the dorms, but not reached the levels where people live.

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