Community resilience has been addressed across multiple disciplines including
environmental sciences, engineering, sociology, psychology, and economics. Interest in …

Given the devastating losses incurred by past major earthquake events together with the
ever-increasing global seismic exposures due to population growth and urbanization …

With the rise of the resilience concept, scholars and practitioners have paid increasing
attention to resilient city, which has become a new means of coping with hazards. As the …

Transport infrastructure is the backbone of the economy and society, while at the same time
is exposed to multiple hazards. Previous natural disasters, including earthquakes, had a …

The resilience of transportation systems has been extensively studied in the past decade.
This paper aims to provide a synthesis of the up-to-date literature on resilient transportation …

In performance-based earthquake engineering framework, seismic fragility functions play a
fundamental role for quantifying the seismic resilience. There are three main approaches for …

The spatial and temporal extent of disruptions to services provided by infrastructure
following disruptive events is directly related to the instantaneous state of the infrastructure …

After recent large earthquakes, field investigations confirmed that several bridges were
severely damaged and collapsed not only due to the earthquake, as an independent …

Risk assessment and mitigation programs have been carried out over the last decades in
the attempt to reduce transportation infrastructure downtime and post-disaster recovery …

The concrete industry has long been adding discrete fibers to cementitious materials to
compensate for their (relatively) low tensile strengths and control possible cracks. Extensive …