Abstract:
The Indian Ocean tsunami and its devastating effects have raised questions as to what
could be done to prevent or minimise such a level of loss in the future. In the case of
structural aspects, first of all we should be able to predict the loads, which are applied by
the tsunami wave. But there are many differences about the applicable wave velocity and
wave loads among researchers.
The purpose of this paper is to collate and present relevant information available in the
literature and propose a simple methodology to predict the relevant loads.
