PROBABILISTIC RESILIENCE ASSESSMENT OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS UNDER BLAST RISK

To quantify risk, protective design practitioners have considered several sources of vulnerability, for either structural or nonstructural elements, while assessing critical infrastructure systems (CIS). This chapter proposes overcoming some of the limitations noted in the current practice of risk assessment of blast-loaded CIS by integrating postblast functionality loss and downtime within a unified PRA framework. To facilitate the integration …