Community resilience has been addressed across multiple disciplines including environmental sciences, engineering, sociology, psychology, and economics. Interest in community resilience gained momentum following several key natural and human-caused hazards in the United States and worldwide. To date, a comprehensive community resilience model that encompasses the performance of all the physical and socio-economic components from immediate impact through the recovery phase of a natural disaster has not been available. This paper summarizes a literature review of previous community resilience studies with a focus on natural hazards, which includes primarily models of individual infrastructure systems, their interdependencies, and community economic and social systems. A series of national and international initiatives aimed at community resilience are also summarized in this study. This paper suggests extensions of existing modeling methodologies aimed at developing an improved, integrated understanding of resilience that can be used by policy-makers in preparation for future events.

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State of the research in community resilience: progress and challenges.

The paper analyzes the performance of a hospital system using a holistic and multidisciplinary approach. Data on impacts to the hospital system were collected using a standardized survey tool. A fa...

Resilience of the Canterbury Hospital System to the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake

Resilience assessment for interdependent urban infrastructure systems using dynamic network flow models

https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/files/139315784/SOILDYN_2017_120_Accepted.pdf

Safety of buried steel natural gas pipelines under earthquake-induced ground shaking: A review

A methodology is presented to evaluate multi-directional force–displacement relationships for soil–pipeline interaction analysis and design. Large-scale tests of soil reaction to pipe lateral and u...

Multi-directional force–displacement response of underground pipe in sand1

This paper explores key aspects of underground pipeline network response to the Canterbury earthquake sequence in Christchurch, New Zealand, including the response of the water and wastewater distr...

Earthquake Response of Underground Pipeline Networks in Christchurch, NZ:

Response of the Christchurch water distribution system to the 22 February 2011 earthquake

Trenchless technology is well accepted for repairing critical underground lifelines with minimal ground surface disruption. The cured in place pipeline (CIPP) lining process is an application of trenchless technology that involves the installation of fiber reinforced composites inside existing pipelines. The uncertain performance of pipelines reinforced with CIPP linings in seismic areas is a barrier to the adoption of this method for seismic retrofit. This article evaluates experimentally the transient seismic response of pressurized pipelines reinforced with fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) linings. The test results show that reinforced pipelines can accommodate very high intensity ground motions and can provide substantial seismic strengthening in addition to efficient rehabilitation of aging underground infrastructure.

Dimitra Bouziou

Papers

Earthquake Response of Underground Pipeline Networks in Christchurch, NZ:

Response of the Christchurch water distribution system to the 22 February 2011 earthquake

Seismic Testing of Critical Lifelines Rehabilitated with Cured in Place Pipeline Lining Technology

Retrofitting pipelines with cured-in-place linings for earthquake-induced ground deformations

Earthquake-Induced Ground Deformation Effects On Buried Pipelines