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Measuring the Resilience of Transportation Networks Subject to Seismic Risk

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dc.contributor.advisorAlice Alipour
dc.contributor.advisorBehrouz Shafei
dc.contributor.advisorJohn Collura
dc.contributor.authorFurtado, Mark N
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentCivil Engineering
dc.date2024-03-28T20:05:18.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T18:15:01Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T18:15:01Z
dc.date.submittedFebruary
dc.date.submitted2015
dc.description.abstractTransportation networks are critical to the function of modern society but they are vulnerable to extreme events such as earthquakes. Damaged bridges can cost millions of dollars to repair and congestion and detours due to bridge closures leads to indirect costs that are even greater than the cost of repair of damaged bridges. A resilient network however should be able to limit the damage caused by earthquakes and recover in a timely fashion. Resilience of networks has been studying in length from a conceptual standpoint but as quantitative measure, the field has been lacking. This study sets forth to quantify resilience based on a set of performance measures and mapping them to the four properties of resilience: robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness and rapidity. The thesis ties in concepts from risk analysis that helps determine expected damage levels and connects those concepts to a resilience framework to better understand how a network responds and recovers after an earthquake. Also explored are methods to decrease repair time in order to limit the indirect costs due to network downtime as well as an overview of pre-event methods of improving resilience with a novel method of selecting bridges for retrofit while minimizing direct and indirect losses.
dc.description.degreeMaster of Science in Civil Engineering (M.S.C.E.)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/6463860
dc.identifier.orcidN/A
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/33130
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1173&context=masters_theses_2&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectSeismic Resilience
dc.subjectSeismic Risk
dc.subjectBridge Networks
dc.subjectRetrofit Optimization
dc.subjectRepair Optimization
dc.subjectCivil Engineering
dc.subjectRisk Analysis
dc.subjectStructural Engineering
dc.titleMeasuring the Resilience of Transportation Networks Subject to Seismic Risk
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