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Damage to Infrastructure: Modeling

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Economic impact, Functional impact, Infrastructure systems, Lifelines, Physical impact, Seismic fragility; Seismic vulnerability

Introduction

Infrastructure systems, also commonly known as lifelines, can be defined as the “systems or networks, which provide for the circulation of people, goods, services and information upon which health, safety, comfort and economic activity depend” (Platt 1991). Infrastructure systems include utility networks such as energy, water, telecommunications, and roads or discrete critical facilities such as hospitals, ports, and airports. They are crucial to the routine functioning of society and play an important role in emergency relief, reconstruction, and recovery after an earthquake.

Infrastructure systems are made up of different types of components, including “point” components, which include facilities used for generation, storage, treatment, or redistribution of a utility, and linear components that connect these facilities acting as...

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  1. EPICentre, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

    Indranil Kongar

  2. Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 8140, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Sonia Giovinazzi

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  1. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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  2. Institute for Risk and Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Kongar, I., Giovinazzi, S. (2014). Damage to Infrastructure: Modeling. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I., Patelli, E., Au, IK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36197-5_356-1

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