Decision making support system for emergency shutdown of gas lifeline system

Conference · Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:403419

Takada, Shiro ^[1]; Fukui, Shinji ^[2]

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1. Kobe Univ. (Japan)
2. Shimizu Construction Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)

Quick recovery of the lifeline function and serviceability after big earthquakes is very important to avoid a secondary disaster. Emergency shutdown of the lifeline systems is a possible way for this purpose. The present paper proposes a computer aided decision making system for a proper timing of an emergency shutdown. The AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) method has been employed to consider relative evaluation of the various factors associated with the decision making. The proposed method is useful especially for an emergency shutdown of the gas supply system which would cause severe effects due to the shutdown.

• OSTI ID: 403419
• Report Number(s): CONF-9508226-; ISBN 0-7844-0101-2; TRN: IM9651%%454
• Resource Relation: Conference: 4. U.S. conference on lifeline earthquake engineering, San Francisco, CA (United States), 10-12 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Lifeline earthquake engineering: Proceedings of the fourth U.S. conference; O`Rourke, M.J. [ed.]; PB: 823 p.; Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, Monograph number 6
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

03 NATURAL GAS
NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS
SEISMIC EFFECTS
SHUTDOWN
EXPERT SYSTEMS
EMERGENCY PLANS