COASTAL HAZARD MITIGATION VIA STRUCTURAL SHAPE MODIFICATION: INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF CURVED STRUCTURAL CROSS-SECTIONS ON WAVE FORCES USING SPH MODELING

When hurricanes strike, the forces of hurricane- induced waves acting on coastal structures may cause significant damage and loss to coastal communities. For instance, structures were damaged by the strikes of Hurricane Ivan (2004), Hurricane Katrina (2005) and Typhoon Haiyan (2013), which led to tremendous loss (Chen et al., 2021). Previous studies have shown that structural geometry plays a significant role in determining the associated wave forces and well-designed structural geometries would be able to reduce wave force magnitude and thus facilitate coastal resilience (Hayatdavoodi and Cengiz Ertekin, 2016; Chen et al., 2021).