Consortium for Enhancing Resilience and Catastrophe modeling (Cercat)

Project CERCat 25-A01:

Transforming Current Hail Fragility Curves into SCS Multi-Hazard Fragility Curves

Goal: Improve the fragility analysis of buildings induced by hail in a severe convective storm (SCS) by considering the interaction between hail and wind during the SCS.

Project CERCat 25-A02:

Empirical Wildfire Fragility Curves for Residential Buildings, Based on Past Event Data

Goal: Develop empirical fragility curves for residential structures under wildfire, based on fire characteristics and post-fire damage inspection data collected over the past 20 years.

Project CERCat 25-A03:

   Linking Regional Climate Variability to Local TC Hazard Probabilities 

Goal: Develop a multi-scale framework to quantify the impact of regional climate variability on local-scale hurricane wind and rainfall probability distributions.

Project CERCat 25-A04:

Multi-Modal Damage Assessment in Post-Disaster Scenarios with AI and Remote Sensing

Goal: Develop multi-modal damage assessment machine learning models for post disaster data analytics.

Project CERCat 25-A05:

Parametric Fragility Models of Slender Structures Under Hurricane Wind Loads

Goal: Develop general parametric hurricane fragility curves for slender structures, such as wind turbines, telecommunication towers, power transmission towers, and elevated water tanks.

Project CERCat 25-A06:

   A Nonstationary Joint Probability Method for Tropical Cyclone Hazard Assessment 

Goal: Estimate local tropical cyclone hazards using a probabilistic framework that accounts for changes in tropical cyclone frequency, intensity, and characteristics.