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The Effect of Damage Functions on Urban Flood Damage Appraisal

Vincenza NotaroChiara Maria FontanazzaG. La LoggiaGabriele FreniValeria PuleoM. De Marchis

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damage curveFlood mythForensic engineeringDamage analysisEnvironmental scienceGeneral MedicineFlood damageuncertainty analysidepth-damage functionuncertainty analysisUncertainty analysisEngineering(all)Flooding (computer networking)

description

Flooding damage appraisal can been obtained by interpolating real damage data caused by historical flooding events or accounting the effects of a flood in terms of the depreciation of assets. Most often, the expected damage is evaluated by means of damage functions describing the relationship occurring between the damage and hydraulic characteristics of flood. The present paper aims to evaluate the uncertainty linked to the choice of the depth-damage function adopted in the flood damage analysis. Several possible depth-damage function formulations were selected in literature and applied to historical flooding events monitored in the "Centro Storico" catchment in Palermo (Italy). (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2014-01-01Procedia Engineering
10.1016/j.proeng.2014.02.138http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.02.138