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Probabilistic Assessment of Civil Infrastructure Resilience to Earthquakes
Author(s) -
Franchin Paolo,
Cavalieri Francesco
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
computer‐aided civil and infrastructure engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.773
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1467-8667
pISSN - 1093-9687
DOI - 10.1111/mice.12092
Subject(s) - resilience (materials science) , vulnerability (computing) , probabilistic logic , work (physics) , metric (unit) , vulnerability assessment , key (lock) , risk analysis (engineering) , computer science , psychological resilience , environmental resource management , environmental science , engineering , computer security , business , psychology , physics , operations management , mechanical engineering , psychotherapist , artificial intelligence , thermodynamics
The large losses occurred in the past due to earthquakes, even in highly developed countries, as well as the ensuing prolonged inactivity of the stricken societies, imparted momentum to research into regional seismic impact and community resilience to earthquakes. Need for comprehensive and consistent modeling is apparent, and this work presents a contribution in this direction. The extension of a recently developed civil infrastructure simulation framework to the evaluation of resilience, as well as the introduction of a new infrastructure network‐based resilience metric represent the novelties of the article and allow one to explore the effect that sources of uncertainty and key vulnerability factors have on the probability distribution of resilience.