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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment: Lifelines

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Fragility curves; Infrastructures; Seismic risk assessment; Transportation networks (railway, roadway, harbor, airports); Utilities (gas, oil, water, wastewater, energy supply)

Introduction

Main Features of Lifelines

Lifelines refer to the complex system and network assets of connected components, usually interacting with other components and systems, which are performing vital functions that are essential to sustain the life and the growth of a community, such as producing, transporting, and distributing goods or services. Their global value for the society and economy is permanently increased in our modern, technologically advanced, highly demanding, and fragile world. They constitute by themselves a set of critical facilities for the proper and safe functioning of the societies. In case of a strong earthquake motion, their physical damages and the consequent disruption of the services they provide may contribute seriously to the global economic loss. At the same time, their...

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University, 424, Thessaloniki, GR-54124, Greece

    Kyriazis Pitilakis & Sotiris Argyroudis

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Pitilakis, K., Argyroudis, S. (2015). Seismic Vulnerability Assessment: Lifelines. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_255

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