haz_fl_velo

These functions are specified in HAZUS as empirical
  equations and indicate whether or not the structure will
  collapse under a given combination of flood velocity and
  flood depth. The empirical equations have the form
  specified below, where the coefficients and exponents are
  dependent on the velocity and depth thresholds for a
  given structure type $$coef1 * V ^ {expo1} + coef2 *
  V + coef3$$

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Damage Functions (DFs), also known as
Vulnerability Functions, associate the physical damage
to a building or a structure (and also its contents and
inventory) from natural disasters to financial damage.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in USA
developed several thousand DFs and these serve as a
benchmark in natural catastrophe modeling, both in
academia and industry. However, these DFs and their
documentation are buried within the HAZUS software are
not easily accessible for analysis and visualization.
This package provides more than 1300 raw DFs used by FEMA's
HAZUS software and also functionality to extract and
visualize DFs specific to the flood hazard. The vignette
included with this package demonstrates its use.

Gopi Goteti

haz_fl_velo: Velocity-depth-damage functions from HAZUS, specific to flood

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