Quantifying the Resilience of Civil Infrastructure Systems

Professor Bozidar Stojadinovic, Ph.D., Chair of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, will present a supply/demand approach to modeling the resilience of a civil infrastructure system that involves component vulnerability and recovery functions and a model of system operation.

Using this model, Prof. Stojadinovic will evaluate the seismic resilience of the electrical power supply system in Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. He will present two classes of resilience measures, examine how to evaluate them probabalistically, and present options to develop resilience acceptance criteria. Finally, he will discuss a process to design resilient civil infrastructure systems.