Design for resilience of structures and infrastructures: theoretical framework and applications

This study focuses on the resilience assessment of an urban development within an effective theoretical framework. In this framework, the large scale urban built infrastructure is perceived as a network, where nodes represent premises for the activities of the large-scale infrastructure and links represent the physical connections between them. The framework implies that the response to a critical event and the recovering capacity from the consequence of a disaster are considered both at a local level, by investigating the network elements (nodes and links) and at a global level, by considering the interactions between the elements and the response of the entire network. A basic application focusing on a specific analysis aspect (the local resilience of a critical component of the network) is provided, together with some analyses on interaction effects using fragility curves