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A benchmark city for seismic resilience assessment

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The concept of seismic resilience has received significant attention from academia and industry during the last two decades. Different frameworks have been proposed for seismic resilience assessment of engineering systems at different scales (e.g., buildings, bridges, communities, and cities). Testbeds including Centerville virtual community (CVC), Memphis testbed (MTB), and the virtual city of Turin, Italy (VC-TI) have been developed during the last decade. However, the resilience assessment results of Chinese cities still require calibration based on a unified evaluation model. Therefore, a geographic information system (GIS)-based benchmark model of a medium-sized city located in the southeastern coastal region of China was developed. The benchmark city can be used to compare existing assessment frameworks and calibrate the assessment results. The demographics, site conditions, and potential hazard exposure of the benchmark city, as well as land use and building inventory are described in this paper. Data of lifeline systems are provided, including power, transportation, water, drainage, and natural gas distribution networks, as well as the locations of hospitals, emergency shelters, and schools. Data from past earthquakes and the literature were obtained to develop seismic fragility models, consequence models, and recovery models, which can be used as basic data or calibration data in the resilience assessment process. To demonstrate the completeness of the data included in the benchmark city, a case study on the accessibility of emergency rescue after earthquakes was conducted, and the preliminary results were discussed. The ultimate goal of this benchmark city is to provide a platform for calibrating resilience assessment results and to facilitate the development of resilient cities in China.

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Acknowledgement

This research was funded by the Scientific Research Fund of Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration (Grant Nos. 2019EEEVL0505, 2019B02 and 2019A02) and Heilongjiang Touyan Innovation Team Program. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, Harbin, 150080, China

    Qingxue Shang, Jichao Li & Tao Wang

  2. Earthquake Resistance and Disaster Mitigation Institute, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100022, China

    Xiaodong Guo

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Quanwang Li

  4. Beijing Key Laboratory of Urban Underground Space Engineering, School of Civil and Resource Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Zhen Xu

  5. School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing, 100044, China

    Linlin Xie

  6. School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China

    Chaofeng Liu

  7. Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, North-outerring-Road No. 1, Yanjiao Economic Developing Area, Sanhe, 065201, China

    Tao Wang

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Shang, Q., Guo, X., Li, Q. et al. A benchmark city for seismic resilience assessment. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 19, 811–826 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-020-0597-3

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