Evaluation of Interaction between Bridge Infrastructure Resilience Factors Against Seismic Hazard Hazard

Abstract

Infrastructure systems like bridges are constantly exposed to different natural hazards, mainly from seismic and earthquakes. Any failure on them would represent a crisis for any civilization as they represent fundamental architecture for allowing people to get transported as well as develop the logistics from materials and products. This work identifies the main factors indispensable to improve bridge infrastructure resilience and how they interact among them based on experts' judgment and previous literature. The interaction between parameters is evaluated by integrating Fuzzy theory with Decision-Making and Trial Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL), known as Fuzzy DEMATEL. The findings of this research demonstrate prominence order and causal-effect relations from the main resilience factors; in this way, the outcome from this study is expected to help stakeholders and decision-makers improve the resilience from bridge infrastructure against the seismic hazard.