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

学院早期职业发展(Career)项目奖的目标是提供一种评估相互依赖的电力和供水系统的经济、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主动管理，特别是在易受飓风和地震等自然灾害影响的地区。这项研究制定了衡量电力和供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以提高其可持续性提供了基础。该项目还为相互依赖的电力和供水系统建模提供了新的计算框架。飓风和地震等自然灾害的影响将与老化的影响相结合，以开发更全面的基础设施系统可靠性建模方法。可靠性和可持续性模型被纳入基础设施管理过程，以帮助支持灾害多发地区电力和供水系统的有意义的变化。如果成功，这项工作将有助于开发更好的方法来评估和管理美国老化的基础设施系统。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发生故障之前改善它们，而不是依赖于在故障发生后修复的被动方法。该项目还将开发一系列适用于初中、高中、大学、研究生院和专业教育的在线和课堂教材。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渠道。

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.