ABSTRACT
Resilience has been gaining extensive attention from the earthquake engineering community including policy makers, disaster managers, engineers, and scientists. It is defined as the functionality of a system with regards to the change of time, interrupted by an external event, gradually recovered by either external interference or inherent recoverability, and finally restored to providing an expected service. As the first step toward the quantification of seismic resilience, a quantitative framework for seismic resilience assessment and a system model are necessary. This chapter introduces a quantitative framework with a system model defined by the state tree method, within which the components are weighed considering their contribution to the system’s functionality. A case study was conducted on a hospital building, which is highly important after earthquakes, as it helps save people injured in earthquakes and provides emergency medical care. The functionality of the emergency department, system modeling, and resilience analysis have been studied by using the proposed framework.
