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The philosophy and definition of retrofitting for resilience
Published in Sarah Sayce, Sara Wilkinson, Gillian Armstrong, Samantha Organ, Resilient Building Retrofits, 2023
In the disciplines of engineering and construction, resilience is the ability to absorb or avoid damage without suffering complete failure and is an objective of design, maintenance and restoration for buildings and infrastructure as well as communities. Moazami et al. (2019) posited two definitions for robust and resilient building in respect of dealing with and preparing for climate uncertainty:
The Implication of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Incorporate Intelligence in Architecture of Smart Cities
Published in Anirbid Sircar, Gautami Tripathi, Namrata Bist, Kashish Ara Shakil, Mithileysh Sathiyanarayanan, Emerging Technologies for Sustainable and Smart Energy, 2022
Sayandeep Chandra, Subhankar Mazumdar
Smart city technologies have a crucial role in improving the resilience of cities for future challenges. In the same context, policy benchmarks hold a key for better smart city governance to guarantee data infrastructure’s ethical and responsible development. Intelligent management can help cities recover from the COVID-19 crisis by avoiding exposing citizens to potential risks through a tracking and alert system (Figure 9.7) (Antunes et al., 2021).
Introduction
Published in Zhishen Wu, Xilin Lu, Mohammad Noori, Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems, 2020
Michel Bruneau, Gian-Paolo Cimellaro, Max Didier, Marco Domaneschi, Ivo Häring, Xilin Lu, Aftab Mufti, Mohammad Noori, Jinping Ou, Anastasios Sextos, Shamim Sheikh, Ertugrul Taciroglu, Zhishen Wu, Lili Xie, Teruhiko Yoda, Ying Zhou
A need for resilience-based design, planning, and optimization is arising with reference to infrastructure systems. Indeed, innovative approaches to decision making methods for the design of new infrastructures in times of climate change, multi-hazard conditions, and increasing interdependencies are expected. The result directly downstream of this innovation process is the creation of new guidelines that are directly available and can lead to a general development in the direction of the creation of resilient communities. These are new standards that need to include new design clauses, technologies, and specifications for new and existing structures.
Resilient cities critical infrastructure interdependence: a meta-research
Published in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 2022
May Haggag, Mohamed Ezzeldin, Wael El-Dakhakhni, Elkafi Hassini
Resilience is a multidisciplinary concept that has roots and is perceived differently across different fields including material science (Davoudi et al., 2012; Lu & Stead, 2013), ecology (Holling, 1996; Standish et al., 2014), urban planning (Spaans & Waterhout, 2017), organizational management (Vale, 2014), engineering (Vale, 2014) and many others. In applied science, resilience is used to describe the stability of materials under shocks (Davoudi et al., 2012; Lu & Stead, 2013). In ecology, resilience indicates how much disturbance an ecosystem can absorb before switching to another state (Holling, 1996; Standish et al., 2014). Urban resilience was also advocated for by the Rockefeller Foundation as the capacity of city systems to survive, adapt and grow in spite of ‘chronic stresses or acute shocks’ (Spaans & Waterhout, 2017). In another example, decisionmakers define resilience as the ability of their organizations/facilities/systems to recover from a certain disruption and return to their original operations (Vale, 2014). In engineering, resilience is the ability of a system to bounce back to a pre-existing or a more desirable state (Vale, 2014). As such, a city that is resilient-by-design has to meet some contradictory objectives to improve inhabitants’ everyday life, where it should include redundant (alternative) components/systems yet remain efficient, be diverse (i.e., with some aspects of independence) but benefit from interdependence, operate autonomously but behave collaboratively, and be structured but remain adaptable.
Articulating the new urban water paradigm
Published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2021
Manuel Franco-Torres, Briony C. Rogers, Robin Harder
Certainly, resilience has become a buzzword in academia and policy over the last decade, receiving varied—and sometimes contraposed—interpretations (Béné et al., 2014; Davoudi, 2012; Folke, 2006). For example, engineering resilience refers to the capacity of a system to quickly recover from a range of disturbances and maintain its ability to deliver its single intended function (de Bruijn et al., 2017; Holling & Meffe, 1996). This interpretation is more aligned with the old urban water paradigm, which aims to resist change by building up a threshold capacity to buffer contextual variations (Gleick, 2000), rigidly controlling the system and keeping it in homeostasis.
Lifetime seismic resilience of aging bridges and road networks
Published in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 2020
Luca Capacci, Fabio Biondini, Andrea Titi
Planning proper lifeline management policies is a key task to satisfy the primary needs of communities not only under operational conditions, but also in a state of emergency. Resilience is becoming a driving concept for new generations of Building Codes and Standards, particularly in United States and Europe, informing innovative trends and practical policies for design, assessment, monitoring, and maintenance of strategic structures and infrastructure facilities. Several definitions of resilience can be found in literature, based on the epistemological orientation and theoretical background of the reference discipline (Gilbert, 2010). In civil engineering, resilience can be defined as the capability of the system to withstand the effects of extreme events and to recover promptly and efficiently the pre-event performance and functionality (Bruneau et al., 2003). Resilience of structure and infrastructure systems is generally investigated considering damage and disruptions caused by sudden extreme hazards, such as earthquakes (Biondini, Capacci, & Titi, 2015b; Bocchini & Frangopol, 2011, 2012a, 2012b; Bruneau & Reinhorn, 2007; Bruneau et al., 2003; Burton, Deierlein, Lallemant, & Lin, 2015; Capacci, 2015; Chang & Shinozuka, 2004; Cimellaro, Reinhorn, & Bruneau, 2010a, 2010b; Decò, Bocchini, & Frangopol, 2013; Franchin & Cavalieri, 2015). In this context, road infrastructure networks play an important role in the emergency response to seismic events and related hazards to ensure both a quick deployment of aids and resources to distressed communities and a prompt repair of the surrounding lifelines and buildings (Carturan, Pellegrino, Rossi, Gastaldi, & Modena, 2013; Zanini, Faleschini, & Pellegrino, 2017).