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Testing protocol for Rain Admittance Factor (RAF) and Surface Runoff (SR) tests

Testing protocol for Rain Admittance Factor (RAF) and Surface Runoff (SR) tests

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Wind-driven rain is one of the main sources of damage to building interior and contents during hurricane landfall. Recently, vulnerability models for hurricane induced total building interior damage (damage to building interior components, utilities, and contents) have been widely developed for prediction of property loss in relation to determinati...

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... total of 38 tests were conducted on the three building models, collecting either direct impinging rain or surface runoff. Table 1 summarizes the test protocol. The direct impinging rainwater on gable roof building was measured for RAF at three different wind speeds keeping the same wind direction to test the hypothesis that the RAF value at a given location on a building façade is independent of the wind speed. ...

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... The wind-induced inertial force is the main driving force along with gravitational and viscous forces dictating raindrops trajectories and intrusion of rainwater through an opening. The turbulent wind plays an important role in the formation of the flow patterns of deposited WDR on the building façade, affecting the distribution of impinging raindrops deposition and accumulation of surface runoff rainwater (Baheru et al. 2013). Moreover, the wind-induced pressure difference across the opening drives in the WDR together with air resulting in significant rainwater intrusion into the building interior especially in case of smaller openings such as envelope defects and exposure of roof underlayment to hurricane WDR (Bitsuamlak et al. 2009;Dao and van de Lindt 2012). ...
... Based on the basic formulation by Dao and Lindt (2010), this paper presents the development of a test-based WDR intrusion model which can be used to estimate the WDR intrusion through envelope defects and breaches during tropical storms and hurricanes. The new model quantifies the WDR intrusion based on opening types and uses experimental data of model parameters based on 12-fan wall of wind (WOW) wind-driven-rain testing (Baheru et al. 2013). This WDR intrusion model can be implemented in hurricane-induced building damage models to predict the total building interior damage and subsequent economic loss. ...
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