Probabilistic resilience assessment of infrastructure—a review

C. de Paor, L. Connolly, A. O’Connor

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Abstract

Resilience is quickly becoming a widespread method of assessing how a system, community or society responds to and recovers from a hazard. Hazards considered in this study include extreme weather and climate hazards such as extreme rainfall, flooding etc. Once ‘rare’ extreme weather events are now becoming increasingly frequent due to climate change, bringing with them the potential to cause significant disruption to infrastructure networks. A quantitative analysis incorporating probabilistic fragility curves is presented here to assess vulnerable locations. This methodology may be expanded to determine resilience of an entire network or system. The capacity of the system to cope with any hazard may then be fully understood allowing recommendations to be made from both a global system perspective as well as at a local element level.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLife-Cycle Analysis and Assessment in Civil Engineering
Subtitle of host publicationTowards an Integrated Vision - Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2018
EditorsDan M. Frangopol, Robby Caspeele, Luc Taerwe
PublisherCRC Press/Balkema
Pages947-954
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781138626331
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2018 - Ghent, Belgium
Duration: 28 Oct 201831 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameLife-Cycle Analysis and Assessment in Civil Engineering: Towards an Integrated Vision - Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2018

Conference

Conference6th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2018
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityGhent
Period28/10/1831/10/18

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