The makewaves tsunami tests and their relevance to tsunami engineering and risk management

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Rossetto, T., Chandler, I., Adams, K., Antonini, A., van Balen, I., Baiguera, M., Buldakov, E., McGovern, D., del Zoppo, M., Allsop, W., Roberts, S., Raby, A., Istrati, D., Nur Jannah, Z., Lopez Querol, P., Melo, J., Wuthrich, D., Barranco, I., Harris. J., Eames, I., Piggott, M., Salah, P. and Boutlon, S.J. (2024). The makewaves tsunami tests and their relevance to tsunami engineering and risk management. World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Milan, Italy 30 Jun - 05 Jul 2024 International Association for Earthquake Engineering.
AuthorsRossetto, T., Chandler, I., Adams, K., Antonini, A., van Balen, I., Baiguera, M., Buldakov, E., McGovern, D., del Zoppo, M., Allsop, W., Roberts, S., Raby, A., Istrati, D., Nur Jannah, Z., Lopez Querol, P., Melo, J., Wuthrich, D., Barranco, I., Harris. J., Eames, I., Piggott, M., Salah, P. and Boutlon, S.J.
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MAKEWAVES is an international multi-partner collaborative project bringing together nine academic institutions and two commercial consultancies. The objective of the collaboration is to develop experimental data and associated numerical modelling on tsunami inundation and interaction with boulders, buildings, natural and engineered barriers, towards the development of new internationally accepted guidance for
structural codes and standards. Using a pneumatic tsunami simulator (TS) developed jointly by HR Wallingford and UCL the team conducted experiments between November 2022 and April 2023 within a highly instrumented 100m long flume. The TS is capable of simulating realistic trough and crest-led tsunami waves at 1:50, including traces from the The TS is capable of generating very long trough and crest-led waves, and can reproduce at 1:50 scale waves from real life events such as the Mercator trace from the 2004 Indian Ocean event and the and 2011 Tohoku tsunamis. The TS capability has been further extended to include bore-waves. The characteristics of the waves are controlled by adjusting the flow rate and total volume of water drawn in and discharged by the TS. The experimental campaign is was subdivided into discrete research areas, each aimed at furthering knowledge on how different tsunami wave characteristics affect their interaction with manmade and natural structures environments. These include tests aimed at understanding: (1) how roughness representative of coastal forests and mangroves affects tsunami inundation characteristics, (2) how tsunami interact with boulders (3) the effectiveness of offshore breakwaters as tsunami barriers (4) how structural loads and foundation scour are affected by building permeability. This paper presents an overview of the tests conducted and some of the important early observations made that are relevant to future
engineering standards and to tsunami disaster management.

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