Seismic Reliability Assessment of Lifeline Systems
Seismic Reliability Assessment of Lifeline Systems
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生命线系统的地震可靠性评估
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2014
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通讯作者:
M. Fragiadakis
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作者:
S. Christodoulou;M. Fragiadakis
A methodology is proposed for the seismic assessment of the reliability of urban water distribution networks (UWDN). The method is based on general seismic assessment standards, as per the American Lifelines Alliance (ALA) guidelines, and on localized historical records of critical risk-of-failure metrics. The proposed methodology is applicable to UWDN under either normal or abnormal operating conditions, and the assessment of reliability considers not only the vulnerabilities of the network components against seismic loading but also the topology of an UWDN and data of past non-seismic performance. This past performance, obtained using records of pipe burst incidents, is utilized with network-specific ‘survival curves’ in fine-tuning the generalized fragility curves suggested by the ALA. The resulting vulnerability analysis is used in devising ‘repair-or-replace’ strategies for the studied lifelines.