Title of Submission
Degree Program
Civil Engineering, MS
Major Advisor Name
Bhaskar Chittoori
Type of Submission
Scholarly Poster
Abstract
Sustainable development, which measures the impact on the environment, economy, and society has become a major focus in research. Civil infrastructure inherently has a direct connection with all three aspects of sustainability. As major climate events pose a threat to infrastructure, the potentiality of failure may increase with non-robust designs. In consideration of risk, as well as the need for sustainable development, a holistic assessment method is required to measure the quality of civil infrastructure. Proposed here is a unified assessment method that balances the resiliency and sustainability of civil infrastructure by the risk of occurrence of catastrophic events.
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