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Sponsored by ASCE Continuing Education and the Infrastructure Resilience Division.
INSTRUCTOR: Bilal M. Ayyub, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE
Purpose and Background
Natural disasters in 2011 alone resulted in $366 billion (2011 US$) in direct damages and 29,782 fatalities worldwide. Storms and floods accounted for up to 70% of the 302 natural disasters worldwide, with earthquakes producing the greatest number of fatalities. Managing these risks and others rationally requires an appropriate definition of resilience and associated metrics. This webinar provides a resilience definition that meets a set of requirements with clear relationships to reliability and risk as key relevant metrics. Such metrics provide a sound basis for the development of effective decision- and policy-making methods for multi-hazard environments for various system types including lifeline, environmental, financial, etc. systems. The webinar also examines recovery, with its classifications based on level, spatial, and temporal considerations. Three case studies are used to gain insights to help define recovery profiles. The webinar also discusses the economics of resilience.
Primary Discussion Topics
- Background: risk landscape
- Resilience definitions and measurement science of resilience
- Practical resilience models and examples
- Recovery and its profiles
- Economics of resilience
Learning Outcomes
- Define and measure resilience of infrastructure systems
- Compute resilience with practical examples
- Describe recovery and its profiles
- Manage resilience
Webinar Benefits
- Discuss the meaning of resilience
- Describe how to quantify resilience
- Find out how to manage resilience
- Develop an understanding of applications and benefits
Webinar Outline
- Background: risk landscape
- Resilience definitions
- Measurement science of resilience
- Resilience models
- Mathematical framework
- Practical model
- Resilience example
- Recovery and its profiles
- Concluding remarks
Intended Audience
- Civil engineers of all specialties: structures, geotech, water resources, construction, etc.
- Researchers from academia, national labs, etc.
- Graduate students
- Public agency engineers
- Emergency planners