Tools for Measuring a City’s Resilience in a Fire Following Earthquake Scenario
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Negar Elhami Khorasani
(Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA)
Thomas Gernay (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) Maria Garlock 
(Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA)
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2015 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference Geneva 2015 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 886-889 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 4 | ||||
| Year: | 2015 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137815818358088 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The paper provides a framework to evaluate the response of buildings in a community subject to fire following earthquake. First, a model is developed to determine the probability of ignition in buildings of a community due to an earthquake. Second, fragility functions are developed for buildings subject to fire, to quantify the structural damage and the expected losses. The ignition model, combined with the fragility functions, can be implemented in a GIS based risk management platform to evaluate economical losses in a region from fire following an earthquake. |
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| Keywords: |
probabilistic fire following earthquake fragility community resiliency ignition
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