Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2022.2067848
R. Davidson, James M. Kendra, Brad R. Ewing, L. Nozick, Kate Starbird, Z. Cox, Maggie Leon-Corwin
ABSTRACT This paper presents a new conceptual framework of the disaster risk of critical infrastructure systems in terms of societal impacts. Much research on infrastructure reliability focuses on specific issues related to the technical system or human coping. Focusing on the end goal of infrastructure services – societal functioning – this framework offers a new way to understand how those more focused research areas connect and the current thinking in each. Following an overview of the framework, each component is discussed in turn, including the initial buildout of physical systems; event occurrence; service interruptions; service provider response; user adaptations to preserve or create needed services; and the ending deficit in societal function. Possible uses of the framework include catalysing and guiding a systematic research agenda that could ultimately lead to a computational framework and stimulating discussion on resilience within utility and emergency management organisations and the larger community.
{"title":"Managing disaster risk associated with critical infrastructure systems: a system-level conceptual framework for research and policy guidance","authors":"R. Davidson, James M. Kendra, Brad R. Ewing, L. Nozick, Kate Starbird, Z. Cox, Maggie Leon-Corwin","doi":"10.1080/10286608.2022.2067848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10286608.2022.2067848","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 This paper presents a new conceptual framework of the disaster risk of critical infrastructure systems in terms of societal impacts. Much research on infrastructure reliability focuses on specific issues related to the technical system or human coping. Focusing on the end goal of infrastructure services – societal functioning – this framework offers a new way to understand how those more focused research areas connect and the current thinking in each. Following an overview of the framework, each component is discussed in turn, including the initial buildout of physical systems; event occurrence; service interruptions; service provider response; user adaptations to preserve or create needed services; and the ending deficit in societal function. Possible uses of the framework include catalysing and guiding a systematic research agenda that could ultimately lead to a computational framework and stimulating discussion on resilience within utility and emergency management organisations and the larger community.","PeriodicalId":50689,"journal":{"name":"Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems","volume":"14 1","pages":"123 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89779316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2022.2089980
R. Ball, E. Hudson-Doyle, M. Nuth, W. J. Hopkins, D. Brunsdon, Charlotte Brown
ABSTRACT Policy and technical guidance are only as good as their implementation. Often well-meaning legislation has unintended consequences, as individuals and organisations overlay their own risk perceptions and understanding to an issue. This paper illustrates how behavioural science can be applied to risk-based engineering decisions to improve decision outcomes. It is framed around an analysis of the management of earthquake prone public buildings in New Zealand. It demonstrates how the individual, social and cultural contexts can influence how risks and impacts are perceived, evaluated, and communicated. The framing of the decision, unconscious biases, cognitive limitations, trust, and other social influences are all critical factors in translation of technical policy to effective outcomes.
{"title":"Behavioural science applied to risk-based decision processes: a case study for earthquake prone buildings in New Zealand","authors":"R. Ball, E. Hudson-Doyle, M. Nuth, W. J. Hopkins, D. Brunsdon, Charlotte Brown","doi":"10.1080/10286608.2022.2089980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10286608.2022.2089980","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Policy and technical guidance are only as good as their implementation. Often well-meaning legislation has unintended consequences, as individuals and organisations overlay their own risk perceptions and understanding to an issue. This paper illustrates how behavioural science can be applied to risk-based engineering decisions to improve decision outcomes. It is framed around an analysis of the management of earthquake prone public buildings in New Zealand. It demonstrates how the individual, social and cultural contexts can influence how risks and impacts are perceived, evaluated, and communicated. The framing of the decision, unconscious biases, cognitive limitations, trust, and other social influences are all critical factors in translation of technical policy to effective outcomes.","PeriodicalId":50689,"journal":{"name":"Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems","volume":"56 1","pages":"144 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91279168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2022.2083111
Bryann Avendano-Uribe, M. Milke, D. Castillo-Brieva
ABSTRACT This work provides an analysis for the civil engineering community of the practice of participatory modelling (PM), reviewing the advances that environmental researchers and practitioners have made over 20 years, providing key references, case studies, and practical guidelines. Past consultation methods have proven inadequate to build trust with communities, and have led to development of PM to improve engagement. Three lessons from PM are emphasised: (1) listen to stakeholders to better understand the system, (2) collaborate with stakeholders to better model the system, and (3) co-decide on actions to better empower and engage stakeholders. Advice on the key aspects to consider when designing a PM process is summarised. The challenges and obstacles to progress are analysed for PM in civil engineering applications. PM appears to be of greater value in larger projects involving complex socio-technical systems. The incorporation of PM within civil engineering work will be more useful to society when civil engineers understand better the operation of PM.
{"title":"Participatory modelling: precedents and prospects for civil engineering","authors":"Bryann Avendano-Uribe, M. Milke, D. Castillo-Brieva","doi":"10.1080/10286608.2022.2083111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10286608.2022.2083111","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This work provides an analysis for the civil engineering community of the practice of participatory modelling (PM), reviewing the advances that environmental researchers and practitioners have made over 20 years, providing key references, case studies, and practical guidelines. Past consultation methods have proven inadequate to build trust with communities, and have led to development of PM to improve engagement. Three lessons from PM are emphasised: (1) listen to stakeholders to better understand the system, (2) collaborate with stakeholders to better model the system, and (3) co-decide on actions to better empower and engage stakeholders. Advice on the key aspects to consider when designing a PM process is summarised. The challenges and obstacles to progress are analysed for PM in civil engineering applications. PM appears to be of greater value in larger projects involving complex socio-technical systems. The incorporation of PM within civil engineering work will be more useful to society when civil engineers understand better the operation of PM.","PeriodicalId":50689,"journal":{"name":"Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems","volume":"32 1","pages":"93 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82822623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2022.2093865
Hamid Movaffaghi, J. Pyykkö
ABSTRACT Vibration performance of a one-way simply supported timber-concrete composite (TCC) floor section has been studied using analytical as well as numerical methods. Focal points have been verification and validation of results from analytical and numerical calculations of vibration response based on experimental data. For the analytical calculations, floor bending stiffness and vibrational response are determined from methods proposed in the current and revised versions of Eurocode 5. The numerical calculations based on the finite element (FE) method are done using 3D solid elements with orthotropic material parameters. When comparing the results of the FE analysis, better agreement with the experimental data is reached for the fundamental frequency when 3D solid elements are used rather than 3D beam elements. Furthermore, better agreement with the experimental data is reached for RMS acceleration by FE analysis rather than the method based on Eurocode 5. For detailed analysis, the authors suggest performing dynamic FE analysis and calculating vibration response from the TCC floor’s modal responses as eigenmodes and natural eigenfrequencies below 40 Hz. For future studies, it is recommended that the verification of vibration response may be accomplished by applying standard EN 16929.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2022.2047665
I. Capanna, F. Di Fabio, M. Fragiacomo
ABSTRACT The paper presents a simplified vulnerability assessment method for unreinforced masonry buildings based on the evaluation of a few structural parameters, which can be determined from visual inspection and a geometry survey. The authors proposed an empirical approach with the aim to assess the in-plane vulnerability quickly by predicting the damage failure of bearing masonry walls. Field observations reveal different behaviours: out-of-plane and in-plane seismic responses. Several simplified assessments focus on out-of-plane behaviour. Few studies deal with in-plane seismic behaviour, which is also the expected response for more masonry buildings. The proposed seismic method provides a vulnerability index, which is evaluated as the weighted sum of 10 parameters markedly affecting the in-plane seismic performance. The reliability of the method is investigated through an application on buildings located in Central Italy, damaged by the 2016 earthquake. The mean damage and damage probability distributions were predicted for each building using the proposed method. Then, fragility functions were estimated from the results of non-linear static analysis, and the damage probability distributions were derived. The capability of the simplified method to foresee the damage probabilities was confirmed by a comparison between different approaches, confirming the reliability of the method in large-scale seismic assessment.
{"title":"A simplified method for seismic assessment of unreinforced masonry buildings","authors":"I. Capanna, F. Di Fabio, M. Fragiacomo","doi":"10.1080/10286608.2022.2047665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10286608.2022.2047665","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper presents a simplified vulnerability assessment method for unreinforced masonry buildings based on the evaluation of a few structural parameters, which can be determined from visual inspection and a geometry survey. The authors proposed an empirical approach with the aim to assess the in-plane vulnerability quickly by predicting the damage failure of bearing masonry walls. Field observations reveal different behaviours: out-of-plane and in-plane seismic responses. Several simplified assessments focus on out-of-plane behaviour. Few studies deal with in-plane seismic behaviour, which is also the expected response for more masonry buildings. The proposed seismic method provides a vulnerability index, which is evaluated as the weighted sum of 10 parameters markedly affecting the in-plane seismic performance. The reliability of the method is investigated through an application on buildings located in Central Italy, damaged by the 2016 earthquake. The mean damage and damage probability distributions were predicted for each building using the proposed method. Then, fragility functions were estimated from the results of non-linear static analysis, and the damage probability distributions were derived. The capability of the simplified method to foresee the damage probabilities was confirmed by a comparison between different approaches, confirming the reliability of the method in large-scale seismic assessment.","PeriodicalId":50689,"journal":{"name":"Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems","volume":"3 1","pages":"66 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88150396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2022.2049257
M. Z. Naser, Brandon Ross
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has been established as a universal language for solving science and engineering problems. Despite the rise of big data, the success of AI in parallel fields, and exciting works published at this frontier, some in the civil engineering community tie AI to a mystique stigma. And yet, there is also ever-growing inertia to embrace AI fully. The mystique of AI arises because (1) AI is not typically taught in a traditional civil engineering curriculum, (2) the majority of civil engineers remain appliers (as opposed to creators) of AI, and (3) commonly adopted AI algorithms leverage blackbox methods – the opposite to that commonly accepted in the civil engineering domain. We write this opinion piece with the aim of presenting a holistic look into the dos and don’ts of adopting AI into civil engineering.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2022.2030318
H. Voordijk, R. Kromanis
ABSTRACT This study applies the philosophy of technological mediation to understand how vision-based systems used for civil structure condition assessment transform input of images from cameras into output of structural response. The objective of this study is to understand the mediating role that a vision-based system plays between their users and properties of civil structures that are unperceivable in a great part by humans. A case study of a specific application of such a system is conceived as a responsive digital material with substrates (image frames consisting of millions of pixels) and traces (modelled time-histories to be interpreted by their users). Built-in technological selectivities determine possible differences between modelled time-histories and existing civil structures in reality and attribute to epistemic uncertainties. Modelled time-histories amplify a person’s experience of a certain aspect of the monitored civil structure while simultaneously reducing experiences of other aspects of the structure. Therefore, to prevent human blindness, engineers have to judge outputs of condition assessment systems in the light of specific pre-theoretical shared agreements and routines. Understanding the complex interplay between technological selectivities and different types of human blindness may increase understanding of how these systems can be used successfully in civil structure condition assessment.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-19DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2021.2013474
S. Labi
ABSTRACT Connectivity refers to the ability of civil engineering system components to transmit/receive data for making strategic, tactical and operational decisions towards enhanced efficiency, effectiveness, and lower costs to the system stakeholders. Automation is the capability of a system or its component to carry out control functions or decisions that are traditionally done by humans. As the benefits of these two technologies become increasingly apparent in various civil engineering disciplines, it seems useful to measure such impacts to generate information for evaluating the feasibility of past or prospective future applications related to connectivity and automation (C/A) or for comparing alternative C/A applications. This paper discusses some constructs for measuring the benefits or effectiveness (MOEs) of C/A applications. An MOE expressed in terms of an appropriate system performance indicator (SPI) can help ascertain the extent to which a C/A application has accomplished or is expected to accomplish its specified goals or to compare the efficacy of alternative C/A applications. This paper identifies a number of SPIs, and establishes a number of MOEs for measuring the effectiveness of C/A applications in terms of the relevant SPIs. The paper provides illustrations to the concepts discussed in the context of highway transport.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2021.2005589
M. Stewart
ABSTRACT Systems thinking and analysis from the civil and environmental engineering communities have been highly successful in mitigating the effects of natural and man-made hazards. Not surprisingly, the United Nations Human Development Index shows steady improvement for every nation since its implementation in 1990. The world has never been healthier, wealthier, or more educated than at the present. Climate change and sustainability remain as significant challenges to be faced. It will be shown, though, that economic and life-safety losses from climate change are often exaggerated and do not reflect wealth creation, human capital, and new improved technologies. There is an urgent need for systems-led approaches and there is a proud record of accomplishments in the past that should equally as well translate into the future. This paper will discuss these issues, as well as briefly describe the importance of systems engineering in dealing with new and emerging threats, as well as the political imperative. The paper will also highlight that there is much to be optimistic about the future, and in the ability of systems thinking to meet any challenges. And to quote Monty Python we should try to ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2021.1980559
G. Masterton
ABSTRACT The author’s reply to David Elms welcomes the supportive comments and offers a visualisation of the body of knowledge required of a systems engineer, building on the ‘T-shaped' person construct. The systems engineer requires a series of pillars of deep domain knowledge, acquired throughout a lifetime of experience, with serial capstones representing the synthesis and integration of that knowledge. Many of the capstones should be from the distant territories of ‘liberal arts' – leading to ‘Stonehenge-shaped people'.
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