Impact of Cascading Failures on Performance Assessment of Civil Infrastructure Systems

Impact of Cascading Failures on Performance Assessment of Civil Infrastructure Systems

Water distribution systems, electrical power transmission systems, and other civil infrastructure systems are essential to the smooth and stable operation of regional economies. Since the functions of such infrastructure systems often are inter-dependent, the systems sometimes suffer unforeseen fun...

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Main Author: Adachi, Takao
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2007
Subjects:
Shortest path
PGA
PGV
Spatial correlation
Functionality
Cascading failure
Infrastructure interdependency
Electrical power transmission system
Water distribution system
Vulnerability
Scenario earthquake
Civil infrastructure systems
Earthquakes
Fragility
Lifeline systems
Risk
Decision making
Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis
System failures (Engineering)
Earthquake hazard analysis
Infrastructure (Economics) Research
Public works Maintenance and repair
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14543

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