MS Title:
Wind hazard modeling and structural fragility analysis 

Description:
In recent years, disastrous wind (such as tropical cyclones, tornados and downbursts) has caused lots of damage and failure to important engineering structures, e.g., high-rise buildings, long-span bridges, wind turbines, etc., which resulted in numerous economic losses and casualties. Therefore, it is imperative to prioritize modeling disastrous wind loads and conducting structural fragility analysis as part of hazard mitigation efforts. Nevertheless, this task still remains challenging not only because many uncertainties are involved in the occurrence and propagation of the disastrous wind event, but also for the reason that the disastrous wind is usually featured by non-Gaussian, non-stationary and non-linear behaviors. To this regard, this MS is devoted to reporting the recent advances and emerging approaches related to structural fragility analysis under disastrous wind loadings. The scope of the mini-symposium is broad, contributions related to the following topics and other pertinent topics are welcome.

• Physics-based modeling of disastrous wind loading, such as tropical cyclones, tornados and downbursts;
• Pragmatic techniques for modeling uncertainty quantification (UQ) associated with the disastrous wind;
• Fragility analysis of complex engineering structures under disastrous wind load.

Session Chairs:
Genshen Fang, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. E-mail: 2222tjfgs@tongji.edu.cn 
Tianyou Tao, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. E-mail: tytao@seu.edu.cn 
Xu Hong, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China. E-mail: xhong@hfut.edu.cn 
Teng Wu, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, US. Email: tengwu@buffalo.edu