Multihazard resilience of highway bridges and bridge networks: a review

Banerjee, Swagata; Vishwanath, B Sharanbaswa; Devendiran, Dinesh Kumar

doi:10.1080/15732479.2019.1648526

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“…The lack of specific design standards for the island can lead to an inconsistency of approach and the potential to overlook context specific issues. It should also be noted that there are acknowledged deficiencies in international standards, for example, in terms of learning from recent extremes (Pritchard 2013) and with regard to multi-hazard design and analysis of bridges and highway infrastructures (Banerjee et al 2019) and that these are particularly important in the SIDS context (López-Marrero et al 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A broad definition of resilience is the ability to respond to and recover from a disruptive event (Hosseini et al 2016). While it could be argued that engineering to some extent has always been concerned with resilience in a general sense, it is only relatively recently that resilience as it applies to infrastructure, from a systems perspective, has become a specific research focus (Banerjee et al 2019;Gay and Sinha 2013). This adoption in engineering was driven to some extent by the huge impacts of Hurricanes Katrina, Irene, and Sandy on infrastructure in the USA (Minaie and Moon, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Realities of bridge resilience in Small Island Developing States

Trigg

Dehghani

Kesete

et al. 2022

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are acknowledged as particularly vulnerable to extreme climate events; however, the realities for transport infrastructure and bridges are still poorly studied. Assessing bridges in this context can be challenging due to data scarcity, a lack of local standards, and uncertainty due to climate change. While bridges are designed to connect transport networks, they also carry energy, water, and communication networks, making them critical cascading failure points worthy of special attention in terms of risk assessment and resilience measures. We explore what resilience actually means for the design and management of SIDS bridge infrastructure by applying a post disaster forensics and systems approach that is not reliant on complex methods or large amounts of data. To demonstrate the practicality of our approach, we apply it to the island of Dominica, which is regularly impacted by both tropical storms and hurricanes. Our results document the extreme conditions for infrastructure and nearby settlements and the complex interrelated physical processes that occur during these events. We reflect on the implications for design approaches for bridges under these conditions and detail specific recommendations on how the resilience of existing and new bridges can be enhanced through practical measures that are achievable, even within the constraints experienced by those managing bridge infrastructure in SIDS contexts. This work adds to the growing number of studies exploring forensic disaster investigation and systems thinking, but is the first to explore bridge resilience in SIDS.

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Realities of bridge resilience in Small Island Developing States

Trigg

Dehghani

Kesete

et al. 2022

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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“…The original equations for the cost estimations were proposed by Stein et al (1999), Kendall et al (2008), and Padgett et al (2009Padgett et al ( , 2010 and combine costed parameters relating to social, economic, and environmental emission factors. For a quantitative risk assessment these equations are combined with the damage probabilities derived from fragility functions for given hazard intensities, to calculate the expected 'weighted' consequential impact due to possible damage (Banerjee et al, 2019, Argyroudis et al, 2020b. The hazard intensity measures used for the fragility analysis are selected based on what the asset is subjected to such as accumulation of ice in the case of the QFC or scour depth for a bridge asset subjected to flooding (Yuan et al, 2019).…”

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“…The damage probabilities at each damage state are coupled with the associated damage ratios (reduced functionality at each damage state) and the relevant costed parameters. This is done with four levels of damage of increasing severity: minor, moderate, extensive, and complete (Banerjee et al, 2019). The 'weighted'…”

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Economic impact of bridge functionality loss from a resilience perspective: Queensferry Crossing, UK

Smith

Argyroudis

Winter³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Bridge Engi

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Understanding the resilience of transport networks is critical for efficient asset management. This paper takes an innovative approach to studying the operability of the Queensferry Crossing (QFC) including cost-benefit aspects. A key driver for the QFC was to increase the resilience of the A90/M90 link by reducing weatherrelated closures. The first weather-related closure of the QFC was in February 2020, when ice formed on the superstructure cables and fell on the carriageway and vehicles, creating a safety risk for bridge users. The bridge was closed for 41 hours and in this paper, we compare the estimated monetary losses with those of past FRB closures. The costs of potential mitigation measures are then assessed in the context of closure costs, thus, improving the resilience of the QFC. Although the QFC has only been open for three years, it is already apparent that it is significantly more resilient than the largely replaced FRB, whether this is considered as the number, duration or costs of closures. It was also found that investing in adaptation measures to prevent similar events in the future is cost-effective, as the cost of a de-icing system is approximately equal to the daily cost of the QFC closure.

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“…Thus, bridges integrate the social and economic aspects of any nation. Over the past few decades, several bridges around the globe have suffered different levels of dysfunctionality due to earthquakes, floods, cyclones, and tsunamis (Banerjee et al, 2019). Although such dysfunctionality does not always result in immediate collapse, time-based deterioration over a period of time may lead to bridge collapse.…”

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Data Envelopment Analysis for Efficiency Measurement of Bridge Resilience

Lad

Chauhan

Patel

2022

BJRBE

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The resilience of a bridge is computed using different quantitative and qualitative assessment methodologies. However, the resilience score obtained by these assessment approaches is insufficient for the decision-makers for setting a priority level for bridges in need of resilience improvement. To address this issue, the present study develops a methodology using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. A total of 12 bridges are selected as the decision-making units in the DEA model. This study considers the variables such as age, area, design high flood level, and finish road level of the bridge as inputs, and bridge resilience index as the output variable. Based on these variables, three frameworks are developed to compute the efficiency of bridge resilience. A variable return to scale with the output-oriented formulation of DEA is selected to compute the efficiency of bridge resilience in all three frameworks. Thus, the proposed methodology enables bridge owners to set a priority level for bridges in need of resilience improvement based on the scores of the assessment methodology.

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Multihazard resilience of highway bridges and bridge networks: a review

Cited by 45 publications

References 176 publications

Realities of bridge resilience in Small Island Developing States

Realities of bridge resilience in Small Island Developing States

Economic impact of bridge functionality loss from a resilience perspective: Queensferry Crossing, UK

Data Envelopment Analysis for Efficiency Measurement of Bridge Resilience

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