Performance-Based Engineering of Transportation Infrastructure Considering Multiple Hazards

Performance- or risk-based earthquake engineering has gained widespread acceptance as a path to achieve user-specified performance targets, which include characterizations of casualties, repair cost, and business interruption, for intensity, scenario- and time-based assessments. There are tools whose roots are in U.S. nuclear energy (from the late 1970s and early 1980s) but no companion toolkit for performance-based earthquake engineering transportation infrastructure. Earthquakes are not the only natural or man-made hazard posed to transportation networks, and there is no framework, in either the building or transportation domain, to accommodate them. The primary goals of this project are to: (1) extend the FEMA P-58 framework for performance-based earthquake engineering of buildings to transportation networks; (2) apply the framework to a simple transportation network involving three or four bridges to demonstrate its use and identify opportunities for improvement; and (3) expand the framework developed to accommodate extreme wind loadings. Ultimately, researchers will develop a plan to benefit the transportation community with tools and techniques for performance-based engineering of transportation networks regarding appropriate investment levels for new-build and retrofit/rehabilitation projects. In the long-term, this potentially may result in significant savings for large infrastructure projects.

• Record URL:
  https://cait.rutgers.edu/research/performance-based-engineering-of-transportation-infrastructure-considering-multiple-hazards/

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $135043
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551847102

  CAIT-UTC-REG14

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation

  Rutgers University
  100 Brett Road
  Piscataway, NJ  United States  08854-8058

  Arup

  77 Water Street
  New York, NY  United States  10005
• Project Managers:

  Szary, Patrick

  Carter, Matt

• Performing Organizations:

  University at Buffalo - SUNY

  221 Ketter Hall
  Buffalo, NY  United States  14260
• Principal Investigators:

  Sett, Kallol

  Wu, Teng

• Start Date: 20181001
• Expected Completion Date: 20200131
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridges; Earthquake resistant design; Hazard evaluation; Infrastructure
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01702253
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551847102, CAIT-UTC-REG14
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Oct 10 2018 11:50AM