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Community resilience index integrating network interdependencies

  • Polytechnic University of Turin
  • SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

Resilience index is used to analyze complex systems, such as communities, when they are subjected to disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, etc. in order to quantify preventive measures, emergency measures and restoration measures. Physical infrastructures within a community have a certain degree of interdependency. Interdependencies can generate cascading failures or amplification effects which can eventually also affect the restoration measures right after an extreme event. These effects can be described by a reduction of the resilience index within a given region. In this article, starting from the restoration curves of the March 11, 2011, Tohoku Earthquake in Japan, a method to evaluate the interdependency index and to calculate the community resilience index is proposed. The weights of each infrastructure which are used to evaluate resilience are evaluated starting from the degree of interdependency indices which are evaluated using time series analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationStructures Congress 2013
Subtitle of host publicationBridging Your Passion with Your Profession - Proceedings of the 2013 Structures Congress
PublisherAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Pages1789-1799
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9780784412848
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
EventStructures Congress 2013: Bridging Your Passion with Your Profession - Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Duration: May 2 2013May 4 2013

Publication series

NameStructures Congress 2013: Bridging Your Passion with Your Profession - Proceedings of the 2013 Structures Congress

Conference

ConferenceStructures Congress 2013: Bridging Your Passion with Your Profession
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh, PA
Period05/2/1305/4/13

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