ABSTRACT
Due to the great impact of natural hazards on human society, the concept of community resilience has gained attention across multiple disciplines in the last decade. Some studies presented community resilience assessment framework and some others presented different types of resilient structures, while the relationship between them is seldom studied. Thus, this study proposes a framework to bridge the gap between seismic performance (e.g. collapse capacity, repair cost, repair time, etc.) of buildings and the desired community resilience goals. In that way, buildings’ seismic design and the community’s resilience assessment are connected. Firstly, the framework estimates the seismic performance of buildings. Then community resilience assessment is performed based on a network-based post-earthquake recovery model that accounts for interdependent infrastructure systems. After the recovery simulation is performed, resilience indicators are calculated. Buildings’ seismic performance in the community should be improved if a desired resilience target is not achieved. The framework, provided in this paper, may benefit better understanding of the role of buildings’ seismic performance in improving community resilience.
