Port Operation Assessment
Oral
Adam Keen, MS, EIT
Graduate Student
University of Southern California
Patrick Lynett, PhD
Professor
University of Southern California
The tsunami risk to the small craft harbors has become an important concern. Existing approaches to assess harbor vulnerably typically look at single events assigning likely damage levels to each event. However, a harbor will likely experience damage from several different types of hazards over its service life with each event contributing proportionally to the total damage state. The approach presented here will consider how the damage from many different natural phenomena is likely to be distributed during a harbors service life and how the cumulative effect of the events could contribute to failure potential of components within a harbor.