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National Earthquake Resilience

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309186773
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book National Earthquake Resilience written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future. Some of these earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulnerable areas. Coping with moderate earthquakes is not a reliable indicator of preparedness for a major earthquake in a populated area. The recent, disastrous, magnitude-9 earthquake that struck northern Japan demonstrates the threat that earthquakes pose. Moreover, the cascading nature of impacts-the earthquake causing a tsunami, cutting electrical power supplies, and stopping the pumps needed to cool nuclear reactors-demonstrates the potential complexity of an earthquake disaster. Such compound disasters can strike any earthquake-prone populated area. National Earthquake Resilience presents a roadmap for increasing our national resilience to earthquakes. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is the multi-agency program mandated by Congress to undertake activities to reduce the effects of future earthquakes in the United States. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-the lead NEHRP agency-commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to develop a roadmap for earthquake hazard and risk reduction in the United States that would be based on the goals and objectives for achieving national earthquake resilience described in the 2008 NEHRP Strategic Plan. National Earthquake Resilience does this by assessing the activities and costs that would be required for the nation to achieve earthquake resilience in 20 years. National Earthquake Resilience interprets resilience broadly to incorporate engineering/science (physical), social/economic (behavioral), and institutional (governing) dimensions. Resilience encompasses both pre-disaster preparedness activities and post-disaster response. In combination, these will enhance the robustness of communities in all earthquake-vulnerable regions of our nation so that they can function adequately following damaging earthquakes. While National Earthquake Resilience is written primarily for the NEHRP, it also speaks to a broader audience of policy makers, earth scientists, and emergency managers.

Performance-Based Seismic Engineering: Vision for an Earthquake Resilient Society

Author : Matej Fischinger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401788758
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Performance-Based Seismic Engineering: Vision for an Earthquake Resilient Society by : Matej Fischinger

Download or read book Performance-Based Seismic Engineering: Vision for an Earthquake Resilient Society written by Matej Fischinger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bled workshops have traditionally produced reference documents providing visions for the future development of earthquake engineering as foreseen by leading researchers in the field. The participants of the 2011 workshop built on the tradition of these events initiated by Professors Fajfar and Krawinkler to honor their important research contributions and have now produced a book providing answers to crucial questions in today’s earthquake engineering: “What visible changes in the design practice have been brought about by performance-based seismic engineering? What are the critical needs for future advances? What actions should be taken to respond to those needs?” The key answer is that research interests should go beyond the narrow technical aspects and that the seismic resilience of society as a whole should become an essential part of the planning and design process. The book aims to provide essential guidelines for researchers, professionals and students in the field of earthquake engineering. It will also be of particular interest for all those working at insurance companies, governmental, civil protection and emergency management agencies that are responsible for assessing and planning community resilience. The introductory chapter of the book is based on the keynote presentation given at the workshop by the late Professor Helmut Krawinkler. As such, the book includes Helmut’s last and priceless address to the engineering community, together with his vision and advice for the future development of performance-based design, earthquake engineering and seismic risk management.

Towards Seismic Resilience

Author : Maryia Markhvida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Towards Seismic Resilience written by Maryia Markhvida and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding disaster risk is an integral aspect of disaster risk management, and it is essential for efficient risk reduction investments. Regional disaster risk assessment frameworks, including seismic risk analysis, are commonly used to quantify disaster risk and inform risk reduction strategies. However, few of the frameworks are able to quantify the full extent of disaster consequences especially as related to household recovery and the disproportionate effect on the socioeconomically vulnerable population. This dissertation proposes a set of new computational methods along various steps of the seismic risk assessment process and lays out the overall methodology for quantifying disaster impacts on the society considering the entire recovery process. This is achieved by integrating and leveraging analytical tools from other fields, namely, geostatistics, real estate investment, macroeconomics, and welfare economics. The dissertation first proposes a framework for simulating spatially distributed ground motions at multiple intensity measures. The framework allows modelers to rapidly simulate multiple realizations of earthquake ground motion intensity, which are required for regional risk assessments. Furthermore, the research investigates post-earthquake decisions on damaged commercial buildings considering the influence of real estate market conditions. An investment decision model for individual buildings that unifies seismic performance estimation and real estate investment analysis is proposed and applied to four commercial buildings in the Los Angeles area. Results suggest that the state of the real estate market has a significant influence on decisions and recovery trajectories of commercial buildings. Finally, this dissertation integrates regional probabilistic seismic risk analysis, which quantifies asset losses, with an economic recovery model to estimate the overall economic impact of a large earthquake on the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to quantifying changes in economic output, this approach gives insight into changes in income and employment across different economic sectors. The results of this analysis are combined with information on income, employment sector, housing values, savings, mortgage, rent, and insurance of households across the Bay Area, to calculate consumption changes throughout the recovery. Furthermore, well-being losses (i.e., changes in the utility of consumption over the recovery period) are calculated and analyzed for different socioeconomic groups. Well-being losses, unlike asset losses which use absolute monetary values, are able to reflect the differential impact that a loss in consumption of $1 has on a low income versus a high income household. The analysis reveals that poorer households suffer only 19% of the overall physical asset losses, but experience 41% of the well-being losses. Well-being losses also extend over a larger region than that of severe asset losses, requiring design of policies to help people recover, in addition to reducing asset losses. We evaluate several pre- and post-disaster risk reduction strategies in terms of their effect on both asset and well-being losses and examine their efficacy across different socioeconomic groups. The tools developed in this dissertation are meant to be used by researchers, practitioners, and government agencies to understand the extent of the disaster risk. They can help policymakers identify vulnerable groups within their community who might require pre- and post-disaster assistance, and design efficient investment strategies for disaster resilience considering socioeconomic characteristics and vulnerabilities of the population at risk.

Resilient Structures and Infrastructure

Author : Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811374465
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Resilient Structures and Infrastructure written by Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses resilience in terms of structures’ and infrastructures’ responses to extreme loading conditions. These include static and dynamic loads such as those generated by blasts, terrorist attacks, seismic events, impact loadings, progressive collapse, floods and wind. In the last decade, the concept of resilience and resilient-based structures has increasingly gained in interest among engineers and scientists. Resilience describes a given structure’s ability to withstand sudden shocks. In other words, it can be measured by the magnitude of shock that a system can tolerate. This book offers a valuable resource for the development of new engineering practices, codes and regulations, public policy, and investigation reports on resilience, and provides broad and integrated coverage of the effects of dynamic loadings, and of the modeling techniques used to compute the structural response to these loadings.

Computational Methods, Seismic Protection, Hybrid Testing and Resilience in Earthquake Engineering

Author : Gian Paolo Cimellaro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319063944
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Computational Methods, Seismic Protection, Hybrid Testing and Resilience in Earthquake Engineering by : Gian Paolo Cimellaro

Download or read book Computational Methods, Seismic Protection, Hybrid Testing and Resilience in Earthquake Engineering written by Gian Paolo Cimellaro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a tribute to the research contribution of Professor Andrei Reinhorn in the field of earthquake engineering. It covers all the aspects connected to earthquake engineering starting from computational methods, hybrid testing and control, resilience and seismic protection which have been the main research topics in the field of earthquake engineering in the last 30 years. These were all investigated by Prof. Reinhorn throughout his career. The book provides the most recent advancements in these four different fields, including contributions coming from six different countries giving an international outlook to the topics.

Seismic Resilience Assessment of Hospital Infrastructure

Author : Qingxue Shang
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1003837395
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Seismic Resilience Assessment of Hospital Infrastructure written by Qingxue Shang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare facilities or hospital systems are classified as some of the most critical infrastructure systems when responding to natural disasters. Seismic Resilience Assessment of Hospital Infrastructure systematically presents a suite of novel techniques developed by the authors and their team for seismic resilience assessment of hospital infrastructure, with particular emphasis on seismic tests and fragility models of hospital equipment, resilience assessment of single hospital buildings and emergency departments, and post-earthquake functionality of urban hospital infrastructures. Features: Presents a state-of-the-art review on hospital resilience Develops seismic fragility model database for hospital equipment based on shaking table tests Provides a road map for effective and efficient methods necessary for assessing and improving seismic resilience of hospital systems and other critical engineering systems Expertly summarizes outcomes of many important research projects sponsored by various research agencies, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China

Building Resilience

Author : Daniel P. Aldrich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226012891
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Building Resilience written by Daniel P. Aldrich and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The factor that makes some communities rebound quickly from disasters while others fall apart: “A fascinating book on an important topic.”—E.L. Hirsch, in Choice Each year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren’t explained by the magnitude of the catastrophe or the amount of aid provided by national governments or the international community. The difference between resilience and disrepair, as Daniel P. Aldrich shows, lies in the depth of communities’ social capital. Building Resilience highlights the critical role of social capital in the ability of a community to withstand disaster and rebuild both the infrastructure and the ties that are at the foundation of any community. Aldrich examines the post-disaster responses of four distinct communities—Tokyo following the 1923 earthquake, Kobe after the 1995 earthquake, Tamil Nadu after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina—and finds that those with robust social networks were better able to coordinate recovery. In addition to quickly disseminating information and financial and physical assistance, communities with an abundance of social capital were able to minimize the migration of people and valuable resources out of the area. With governments increasingly overstretched and natural disasters likely to increase in frequency and intensity, a thorough understanding of what contributes to efficient reconstruction is more important than ever. Building Resilience underscores a critical component of an effective response.

Unbreakable

Author : Stephane Hallegatte
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464810044
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Unbreakable written by Stephane Hallegatte and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Economic losses from natural disasters totaled $92 billion in 2015.' Such statements, all too commonplace, assess the severity of disasters by no other measure than the damage inflicted on buildings, infrastructure, and agricultural production. But $1 in losses does not mean the same thing to a rich person that it does to a poor person; the gravity of a $92 billion loss depends on who experiences it. By focusing on aggregate losses—the traditional approach to disaster risk—we restrict our consideration to how disasters affect those wealthy enough to have assets to lose in the first place, and largely ignore the plight of poor people. This report moves beyond asset and production losses and shifts its attention to how natural disasters affect people’s well-being. Disasters are far greater threats to well-being than traditional estimates suggest. This approach provides a more nuanced view of natural disasters than usual reporting, and a perspective that takes fuller account of poor people’s vulnerabilities. Poor people suffer only a fraction of economic losses caused by disasters, but they bear the brunt of their consequences. Understanding the disproportionate vulnerability of poor people also makes the case for setting new intervention priorities to lessen the impact of natural disasters on the world’s poor, such as expanding financial inclusion, disaster risk and health insurance, social protection and adaptive safety nets, contingent finance and reserve funds, and universal access to early warning systems. Efforts to reduce disaster risk and poverty go hand in hand. Because disasters impoverish so many, disaster risk management is inseparable from poverty reduction policy, and vice versa. As climate change magnifies natural hazards, and because protection infrastructure alone cannot eliminate risk, a more resilient population has never been more critical to breaking the cycle of disaster-induced poverty.

Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Buildings

Author : Izuru Takewaki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 144714144X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Buildings written by Izuru Takewaki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineers are always interested in the worst-case scenario. One of the most important and challenging missions of structural engineers may be to narrow the range of unexpected incidents in building structural design. Redundancy, robustness and resilience play an important role in such circumstances. Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Buildings: The worst case approach discusses the importance of worst-scenario approach for improved earthquake resilience of buildings and nuclear reactor facilities. Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Buildings: The worst case approach consists of two parts. The first part deals with the characterization and modeling of worst or critical ground motions on inelastic structures and the related worst-case scenario in the structural design of ordinary simple building structures. The second part of the book focuses on investigating the worst-case scenario for passively controlled and base-isolated buildings. This allows for detailed consideration of a range of topics including: A consideration of damage of building structures in the critical excitation method for improved building-earthquake resilience, A consideration of uncertainties of structural parameters in structural control and base-isolation for improved building-earthquake resilience, and New insights in structural design of super high-rise buildings under long-period ground motions. Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Buildings: The worst case approach is a valuable resource for researchers and engineers interested in learning and applying the worst-case scenario approach in the seismic-resistant design for more resilient structures.

Earthquakes

Author :
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1789846668
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Earthquakes written by and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of scientific papers on earthquake preparedness, vulnerability, resilience, and risk assessment. Using case studies from various countries, chapters cover topics ranging from early warning systems and risk perception to long-term effects of earthquakes on vulnerable communities and the science of seismology, among others. This volume is a valuable resource for researchers, students, non-governmental organizations, and key decision-makers involved in earthquake disaster management systems at national, regional, and local levels.

Disaster Resilience from a Sociological Perspective

Author : Barbara Lucini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
ISBN 13 : 3319047388
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Disaster Resilience from a Sociological Perspective by : Barbara Lucini

Download or read book Disaster Resilience from a Sociological Perspective written by Barbara Lucini and published by Springer Science & Business. This book was released on 2014-05-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural disasters traumatize individuals, disrupt families, and destabilize communities.Surviving these harrowing events calls for courage, tenacity, and resilience. Professional planning requires specific types of knowledge of how people meet and cope with extreme challenges. Disaster Resilience from a Sociological Perspective examines three major earthquakes occurring in Italy over a fourteen - year period for a well-documented analysis of populations' responses to and recovery from disaster, the social variables involved, and the participation of public agencies. This timely volume reviews sociological definitions and models of disaster, identifying core features of vulnerability and multiple levels of individual and social resilience. The analysis contrasts the structural and supportive roles of Italy's civil protection and civil defense services in emergency planning and management as examples of what the author terms professional resilience. And testimony from earthquake survivors and volunteers gives voice to the social processes characteristic of disaster. Among the areas covered: Social context for concepts of disaster, vulnerability, risk, and resilience Types of resilience: a multidimensional analysis, focused on a physical, ecological, and ecosystem perspective Findings from three earthquakes: loss, hope, and community. Two systems of organizational response to emergencies Toward a relational approach to disaster resilience planning Plus helpful tables, methodological notes, and appendices For researchers in disaster preparedness, psychology, and sociology, Disaster Resilience from a Sociological Perspective raises--and addresses--salient questions about people and communities in crisis, and how studying them can improve preparedness in an uncertain future.

Towards resilient non-engineered construction

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231001744
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Towards resilient non-engineered construction written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shape Memory Alloys for Seismic Resilience

Author : Cheng Fang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811370400
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Shape Memory Alloys for Seismic Resilience written by Cheng Fang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the fundamental properties and practical applications of shape memory alloys (SMAs) from the perspective of seismic engineering. It objectively discusses the superiority of this novel class of materials, which could potentially overcome the limitations of conventional seismic control technologies. The results, vividly presented in the form of tables and figures, are demonstrated with rigorous experimental verifications, supplemented by comprehensive numerical and analytical investigations. The book allows readers to gain an in-depth understanding of the working mechanisms of various SMA-based structural devices and members, including beam-to-column connections, dampers, and braces, while also providing them with a broader vision of next-generation, performance-based seismic design for novel adaptive structural systems. Helping to bridge the gap between material science and structural engineering, it also sheds light on the potential of commercializing SMA products in the construction industry. The cutting-edge research highlighted here provides technical incentives for design professionals, contractors, and building officials to use high-performance and smart materials in structural design, helping them stay at the forefront of construction technology.

Resilience and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructures under Extreme Loads

Author : Zheng Lu
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039214012
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Resilience and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructures under Extreme Loads written by Zheng Lu and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many regions worldwide which are susceptible to extreme loads such as earthquakes. These can cause loss of life and adverse impacts on civil infrastructures, the environment, and communities. A series of methods and measures have been used to mitigate the effects of these extreme loads. The adopted approaches and methods must enable civil structures to be resilient and sustainable. Therefore, to reduce damage and downtime in addition to protecting life and promoting safety, new resilient structure technologies must be proposed and developed. This special issue book focuses on methods of enhancing the sustainability and resilience of civil infrastructures in the event of extreme loads (e.g., earthquakes). This book contributes proposals of and theoretical, numerical, and experimental research on new and resilient civil structures and their structural performance under extreme loading events. These works will certainly play a significant role in promoting the application of new recoverable structures. Moreover, this book also introduces some case studies discussing the implementation of low-damage structural systems in buildings as well as articles on the development of design philosophies and performance criteria for resilient buildings and new sustainable communities.

Seismic Resilience Evaluation of Fixed Communication Infrastructure Systems

Author : Farrukh Latif
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Seismic Resilience Evaluation of Fixed Communication Infrastructure Systems written by Farrukh Latif and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reliability and availability of lifelines during and after any natural hazard-caused disaster is a critical requirement to ensure that society can not only tolerate the effects of natural disaster but also recover to its pre-disaster state as fast as possible. The fixed communication infrastructure systems play a vital role not only during everyday life but also during and after natural disasters to provide communication with emergency services and to support the recovery of other lifelines due to inherent interdependencies. The major objectives of this research are: • Quantitative assessment of the impact of major earthquakes on fixed communication infrastructure and development of geospatial seismic hazard maps for the lifeline; • Quantitative seismic resilience evaluation of the fixed communication system; and • Guidelines and approaches to enhance the seismic resilience of the fixed communication infrastructure network. The study explores both the seismic induced physical damages to the fixed communication infrastructure systems and the degradation of the communication systems performance due to high surge in traffic demand which results in congestion during and after an earthquake. In this thesis, the approaches and methods are motivated by the seismic risk assessment (SRA) and Resilience-Compositional Demand Supply (Re-CoDeS) frameworks. This study validates these methods through a case study to assess the possible impact of four scenarios of Alpine Fault 8 (AF8) earthquake on the West Coast, New Zealand fixed communication infrastructure system. The AF8 seismic damages to central offices (COs) are modelled on GIS map to produce a seismic hazard map which aims to aid the investment strategies to enhance the resilience of the fixed communication infrastructure system. This study also uses the fragility functions of COs, which is a key input for the SRA. Based on the results and findings from the case study, it is found that as Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) level increases, the severity of damage to COs increases. A Southern Hypocenter AF8 scenario would result in extensive (ds2) or complete (ds3) damage to a greater number of COs than in any other AF8 earthquake scenarios. It is observed that there is a higher risk of losing Greymouth (T2 CO) in case of AF8 Central and Southern Hypocenter MMI 9 scenarios than the other two AF8 scenarios under study. Traffic tolerance (capacity) measured in Mbps is used as a metric for seismic resilience evaluation. It can also be concluded that the West Coast fixed communication infrastructure system would have high seismic resilience (Rsys) for MMI 8 level for AF8 Central and Southern Hypocenter compared to MMI level 9.

Urban Resilience for Emergency Response and Recovery

Author : Gian Paolo Cimellaro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319306561
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Urban Resilience for Emergency Response and Recovery written by Gian Paolo Cimellaro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-04 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the concepts of Resilience-Based Design (RBD) as an extension of Performance-Based Design. It provides readers with a range of cutting-edge methodologies for evaluating resilience and clarifies the difference between resilience, vulnerability and sustainability. Initially, the book focuses on describing the different types of uncertainty that arise in the context of resilience evaluation. This is followed by an entire chapter dedicated to the analytical and experimental recovery functions. Then, starting from the definition of resilience provided by MCEER, an extension of the methodology is provided that introduces the seven dimensions of Community Resilience, summarized in the acronym PEOPLES. They are: Population and Demographics, Environmental/Ecosystem, Organized Governmental Services, Physical infrastructures, Lifestyle and Community Competence, Economic Development, and Socio-Cultural Capital. For each dimension, components and subcomponents are defined and the related indices are provided. Underlining the importance of the physical infrastructure dimension, the book provides several examples of applications for transportation, hydraulic, gas and power networks. The problem of interdependencies and the domino effect is also taken into account during the analysis. One of the book’s closing chapters focuses on different methodologies for improving disaster preparedness and engineering mitigation strategies, while the last chapter describes the different computer platforms available on the market for evaluating Community Resilience. The book offers readers an extensive introduction to the concept of Resilience-Based Design, together with selected advanced applications for specialists. No prerequisite knowledge is needed in order to understand the book, and the Appendix offers valuable supplemental information on e.g. the probabilistic concepts. As such, the book offers a valuable resource for graduate students, young engineers and researchers who are interested in the topic, and can also be used as a supplementary text in graduate level Disaster Resilience courses.

An Introduction to Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis

Author : J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A.
Publisher : Guyer Partners
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis written by J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A. and published by Guyer Partners. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductory technical guidance for civil, geotechnical and structural engineers interested in earthquake hazard analysis. Here is what is discussed: 1. OVERVIEW OF PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS (PSHA) METHODOLOGY 2. CHARACTERIZING SEISMIC SOURCES FOR PSHA 3. GROUND MOTION ATTENUATION CHARACTERIZATION FOR PSHA 4. TREATMENT OF SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY IN PSHA 5. DEVELOPMENT OF SITE-SPECIFIC RESPONSE SPECTRA FROM PSHA 6. DEVELOPMENT OF ACCELEROGRAMS 7. SUMMARY OF STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS OF DSHA AND PSHA.