ABSTRACT
Life-cycle concepts are used broadly in decision-making, such as the structural performance of buildings and lifeline systems and their management. However, life-cycle concepts are not yet explicitly incorporated into the community recovery modeling process, and nor do they typically consider socio-economics beyond a typical benefit-cost style analysis. This study incorporates life cycle concepts into community resilience analysis for physical-social interdependent networks following tornado hazards. More specifically, this study examines the preparedness, response, and recovery of buildings and households and explores the impacts of policy decisions on the life cycle phases across temporal and spatial domains using a fully interacting community resilience model. In order to achieve this goal, the methodology integrates a series of existing community resilience models across engineering and social science disciplines. This work can further expand and provide community decision-making support for physical-social interdependent networks impacted by more policy decisions and generic natural hazards.
