CAREER: Integrated Modeling of Sustainability and Reliability for Interdependent Infrastructure Systems

该学院早期职业发展（CAREER）计划奖的目的是提供一种评估相互依存的电力和水系统的经济，环境和社会可持续性和可靠性的方法。这是为了更好地支持对公共和私人基础设施的积极管理，特别是在易受飓风和地震等自然灾害影响的地区。该研究制定了衡量电力和水系统可持续性趋势的指标，为改变这些系统的管理和资金提供了基础，以提高其可持续性。该项目还提供了新的计算框架，用于对相互依赖的电力和水系统进行建模。飓风和地震等自然灾害的影响将与老化的影响相结合，为基础设施系统开发更全面的可靠性建模方法。可靠性和可持续性模型被纳入基础设施管理流程，以帮助支持灾害多发地区电力和供水系统的有意义的变革。如果成功，这项工作将有助于改进评估和管理美国老化基础设施系统的方法。这些改进的方法将使有限的公共和私人资金能够更有效地用于在基础设施系统失灵之前加以改进，而不是依赖于在失灵发生后才采取补救办法。该项目还将为初中、高中、大学、研究生院和专业教育开发一系列在线和课堂教学材料。这些材料将有助于进一步建立对基础设施工程感兴趣和受过教育的学生的管道。

The objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program award is to provide an approach for assessing the economic, environmental, and social sustainability and reliability of interdependent power and water systems. This is intended to better support proactive management of public and private infrastructure, particularly in areas susceptible to natural hazards such as hurricanes and earthquakes. The research develops indicators for measuring trends in the sustainability of power and water systems, providing a basis for changing the management and funding of these systems to improve their sustainability. The project also provides new computational frameworks for modeling interdependent power and water systems. The impacts of natural hazards such as hurricanes and earthquakes will be combined with the effects of aging to develop a more holistic reliability modeling approach for infrastructure systems. The reliability and sustainability models are brought into the infrastructure management process to help support meaningful change in power and water systems in hazard-prone areas. If successful, this work will contribute to the development of improved methods for assessing and managing aging infrastructure systems in the US. These improved methods would allow limited public and private funds to be used more efficiently to improve infrastructure systems before they fail rather than relying on a reactive approach of repairing failures after they occur. This project will also develop a series of on-line and classroom teaching materials for middle school, high school, college, graduate school, and professional education. These materials will help to further establish a pipeline of students who are interested and educated in infrastructure engineering.