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Title: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Resilience Measures for Water Infrastructure Systems

Journal Article · · Water (Basel)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/w10020164· OSTI ID:1427917
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  1. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
  2. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  3. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)

Over the past few decades, the concept of resilience has emerged as an important consideration in the planning and management of water infrastructure systems. Accordingly, various resilience measures have been developed for the quantitative evaluation and decision-making of systems. There are, however, numerous considerations and no clear choice of which measure, if any, provides the most appropriate representation of resilience for a given application. This study provides a critical review of quantitative approaches to measure the resilience of water infrastructure systems, with a focus on water resources and distribution systems. A compilation of 11 criteria evaluating 21 selected resilience measures addressing major features of resilience is developed using the Axiomatic Design process. Existing gaps of resilience measures are identified based on the review criteria. The results show that resilience measures have generally paid less attention to cascading damage to interrelated systems, rapid identification of failure, physical damage of system components, and time variation of resilience. Concluding the paper, improvements to resilience measures are recommended. The findings contribute to our understanding of gaps and provide information to help further improve resilience measures of water infrastructure systems.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1427917
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-132538; WATEGH; 45304036F
Journal Information:
Water (Basel), Vol. 10, Issue 2; ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher:
MDPICopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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