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Earthquake-Resilient Infrastructure: The Missing Link
Infrastructure is one of the first aspects in the built environment being impacted by disasters with direct impacts on life, economic growth, and viability. Rapid growth of urban population is pursued by the need to increase critical infrastructure capacity, at a time when the world strives to secure maintenance funding. Incorporating resilience as a driving force in design has been a discussion topic in engineering as the ability to anticipate, prepare for, adapt to changed conditions, withstand, and rapidly recover from disasters. Developing quantifiers of resilience in geotechnical earthquake engineering as being done for structural applications has challenges and presents a new frontier that requires an integrated framework and a new mindset. To be resilient, an infrastructure system should have a “fail-safe, self-recentering” capability that will allow continuing operation or quick return to service, rather than strengthening the system to withstand the event. Combined with novel geo-technologies, the same framework can be applied for asset utilization and maintenance which essentially will enhance the resilience. This paper will discuss some challenges of this new geo-frontier and thoughts for addressing them with emphasis on the “missing link” of integrating life quality factors in engineering resilience goals.
Earthquake-Resilient Infrastructure: The Missing Link
Infrastructure is one of the first aspects in the built environment being impacted by disasters with direct impacts on life, economic growth, and viability. Rapid growth of urban population is pursued by the need to increase critical infrastructure capacity, at a time when the world strives to secure maintenance funding. Incorporating resilience as a driving force in design has been a discussion topic in engineering as the ability to anticipate, prepare for, adapt to changed conditions, withstand, and rapidly recover from disasters. Developing quantifiers of resilience in geotechnical earthquake engineering as being done for structural applications has challenges and presents a new frontier that requires an integrated framework and a new mindset. To be resilient, an infrastructure system should have a “fail-safe, self-recentering” capability that will allow continuing operation or quick return to service, rather than strengthening the system to withstand the event. Combined with novel geo-technologies, the same framework can be applied for asset utilization and maintenance which essentially will enhance the resilience. This paper will discuss some challenges of this new geo-frontier and thoughts for addressing them with emphasis on the “missing link” of integrating life quality factors in engineering resilience goals.
Earthquake-Resilient Infrastructure: The Missing Link
Nikolaou, Sissy (author) / Kourkoulis, Rallis (author) / Diaz-Fanas, Guillermo (author)
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics V ; 2018 ; Austin, Texas
2018-06-07
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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