Vulnerability and Robustness of Civil Infrastructure Systems to Hurricanes
Civil infrastructure systems play an important role in community resilience. Without proper functioning of the infrastructure, especially power delivery, society will not recover quickly from disruptive events, such as hurricanes. In this paper, the vulnerability, response, and recovery of selected...
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| description | Civil infrastructure systems play an important role in community resilience. Without proper functioning of the infrastructure, especially power delivery, society will not recover quickly from disruptive events, such as hurricanes. In this paper, the vulnerability, response, and recovery of selected infrastructure at the system level for several hurricanes in the USA are modeled using geostatistical methods, employing post-event data. Inoperability is the main variable modeled for each infrastructure system. In this paper, robustness is a property considered to be the opposite of vulnerability, and it plays an important role in the resiliency modeling. The infrastructure systems examined in this paper are electric power delivery and telecommunications. Connections among the systems are briefly explored. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e71a7e4550a64c2e95b80e10c7adaa182022-12-21T19:03:41ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Built Environment2297-33622017-10-01310.3389/fbuil.2017.00060292024Vulnerability and Robustness of Civil Infrastructure Systems to HurricanesShuoqi Wang0Dorothy A. Reed1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United StatesDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United StatesCivil infrastructure systems play an important role in community resilience. Without proper functioning of the infrastructure, especially power delivery, society will not recover quickly from disruptive events, such as hurricanes. In this paper, the vulnerability, response, and recovery of selected infrastructure at the system level for several hurricanes in the USA are modeled using geostatistical methods, employing post-event data. Inoperability is the main variable modeled for each infrastructure system. In this paper, robustness is a property considered to be the opposite of vulnerability, and it plays an important role in the resiliency modeling. The infrastructure systems examined in this paper are electric power delivery and telecommunications. Connections among the systems are briefly explored.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbuil.2017.00060/fullhurricanewind engineeringstructural engineeringresiliencefragility |
| spellingShingle | Shuoqi Wang Dorothy A. Reed Vulnerability and Robustness of Civil Infrastructure Systems to Hurricanes Frontiers in Built Environment hurricane wind engineering structural engineering resilience fragility |
| title | Vulnerability and Robustness of Civil Infrastructure Systems to Hurricanes |
| title_full | Vulnerability and Robustness of Civil Infrastructure Systems to Hurricanes |
| title_fullStr | Vulnerability and Robustness of Civil Infrastructure Systems to Hurricanes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vulnerability and Robustness of Civil Infrastructure Systems to Hurricanes |
| title_short | Vulnerability and Robustness of Civil Infrastructure Systems to Hurricanes |
| title_sort | vulnerability and robustness of civil infrastructure systems to hurricanes |
| topic | hurricane wind engineering structural engineering resilience fragility |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbuil.2017.00060/full |
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