Engineering Infrastructures for Resilience and Growth
Start Date
1-10-2013 12:00 PM
End Date
1-10-2013 12:35 PM
Description
Abstract: Civil infrastructure and its impact on societies can tell us different stories Infrastructures are complex, adaptive, systems of systems. We have engineered their elements, but their topology emerges and changes over time as population grows and moves and as we learn how they fail and can be protected from failure. As we expand our modelling capability to better anticipate and improve our understanding of these systems we tend to focus on optimization of their performance to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Over the past decade, we’ve expanded the use of models to evaluate risks to infrastructures. Modelling is expanding to support the goal of resilient design for future infrastructures under the stresses of a changing global climate, population growth, evolving demand and geologic conditions. This discussion explores the innovations in modelling and analysis needed to support engineering designs that improve system resilience to a wide range of future stresses and natural disasters.
Citation:
Brown, T. (2014). Engineering Infrastructures for Resilience and Growth. In: Campbell P. and Perez P. (Eds), Proceedings of the International Symposium of Next Generation Infrastructure, 1-4 October 2013, SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Engineering Infrastructures for Resilience and Growth
Abstract: Civil infrastructure and its impact on societies can tell us different stories Infrastructures are complex, adaptive, systems of systems. We have engineered their elements, but their topology emerges and changes over time as population grows and moves and as we learn how they fail and can be protected from failure. As we expand our modelling capability to better anticipate and improve our understanding of these systems we tend to focus on optimization of their performance to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Over the past decade, we’ve expanded the use of models to evaluate risks to infrastructures. Modelling is expanding to support the goal of resilient design for future infrastructures under the stresses of a changing global climate, population growth, evolving demand and geologic conditions. This discussion explores the innovations in modelling and analysis needed to support engineering designs that improve system resilience to a wide range of future stresses and natural disasters.
Citation:
Brown, T. (2014). Engineering Infrastructures for Resilience and Growth. In: Campbell P. and Perez P. (Eds), Proceedings of the International Symposium of Next Generation Infrastructure, 1-4 October 2013, SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong, Australia.