Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems Emerging Developments and Future Challenges Resilience and Sustainability in Civil, Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering Systems Series

With rapid urbanization in developing countries and the emergence of smart systems and integrated intelligent devices, the new generation of infrastructure will be smarter and more efficient. However, due to natural and anthropomorphic hazards, as well as the adverse impact of climate change, civil infrastructure systems are increasingly vulnerable. Therefore, future-proofing and designing resilience into infrastructure is one of the biggest challenges facing the industry and governments in all developing and industrialized societies. This book provides a comprehensive overview of infrastructure resiliency, new developments in this emerging field and its scopes, including ecology and sustainability, and the challenges involved in building more resilient civil infrastructure systems. Moreover, it introduces a strategic roadmap for effective and efficient methods needed for modeling, designing, and assessing resiliency.

Features:

• Includes contributions from internationally recognized scholars in the emerging field of infrastructure resilience.
• Covers a broad range of topics in infrastructure resilience such as disaster assessment, civil infrastructure and lifeline systems, natural hazard mitigation, and seismic protection.
• Includes practical global case studies and leading-edge research from several countries.
• Presents an interdisciplinary approach in addressing the challenges in the emerging field of infrastructure resilience

Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems: Emerging Developments and Future Challenges serves as a valuable resource for practicing professionals, researchers, and advanced students seeking practical, forward-looking guidance.

Preface. Contributors. Resilience of Civil Infrastructure in a Life-CycleContext. Christchurch: Rebuilding a Resilient City? Resilient Bridge Decks Based on ISIS Winnipeg Principles. Resilience Consideration of a Historical Timber Bridge. Resiliency and Recoverability of Concrete Structures. Assessing Urban Infrastructures Resilience: An Overview & New Resilience Evaluation Theory. Resilient Isolation-Structure Systems with Super-Large Displacement Friction Pendulum Bearings. Real-Time Regional Time-History Analysis and Its Application in Resilience-Oriented Earthquake Emergency Response. Functionality Analyses of Engineering Systems: One Step toward Seismic Resilience. Resilience of Bridges in Infrastructural Networks. Building Resilience and Sustainability in Concrete Structures with FRP. Resilience-Oriented Displacement-Based Seismic Design Procedure and Its Application in Self-Centering Metallic Energy-Dissapating Structures. A Decision-Making Framework for Enhanching Resilience of Road Networks in Earthquake Regions. Index.

Professor Zhishen Wu is a professor at Southeast University, China and Ibaraki University, Japan. His research expertise include structural/concrete/maintenance engineering and advanced composite materials. He is the author or co-author of over 600 refereed papers including over 200 journal articles and has given 50 keynote or invited papers. He also holds 50 patents. Dr. Wu was awarded the JSCE Research Prize by Japan Society of Civil Engineering in 1990, the JSCM Technology Award by the Japan Society for Composite Materials in 2005, 2009, SHM person of the year Award by the International Journal of Structural Health Monitoring, and the National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology (2nd) of China in 2012. He is also a member of Japan National Academy of Engineering. He chairs China Chemical Fibers Association Committee on Basalt Fibers, and is the President of the International Society for Structural health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure（ISHMII). He is also an elected follow of ASCE, JSCE, ISHMII, and the International Institute of FRP in Construction. Moreover, he serves as an editor, associate editor, editorial board member for more than ten international journals, including the founding chief editor of the International Journal of Sustainable Materials and Structural Systems. Professor Wu has supervised a large number of national research projects in China and was the founder of the International of Institute for Urban Systems Engineering, at Southeast University.

Prof. Xilin Lu is currently a distinguished professor of civil engineering at Tongji University. He conducted an extensive research at the University of Alberta, Canada, on the punching shear behavior of RC slabs during 1990, and worked as a research associate at the University of Hong Kong from 1991 to 1992, where he investigated the seismic behavior of reinforced concrete shear walls with vertical slits. His research area includes dynamic modeling, testing and detailed an