urban resilience; disaster mitigation; fire hazard; critical infrastructure; literature review; risk management
Abstract :
[en] Fire disasters are a serious threat to the functionality of the built environment, in particular in densely populated urban areas where city infrastructure systems are under strain. Yet, fire safety issues are still mostly considered at the level of individual elements or buildings, disregarding the global risk for systems’ functionality. In line with the current efforts toward ensuring more resilient cities, this paper presents an overview of urban infrastructure resilience to fire disaster. The definitions of resilience and the quantitative frameworks established for other hazards such as earthquakes are reviewed. Then, the specificities of structural fire engineering are presented and it is shown how resilience frameworks could be applied to fire hazard. Finally, the paper identifies areas where further research efforts are needed.
Disciplines :
Civil engineering
Author, co-author :
Gernay, Thomas ; Université de Liège > Département ArGEnCo > Ingénierie du feu
Selamet, Serdar; Bogazici University, Turkey > Department of Civil Engineering
Tondini, Nicola; University of Trento, Italy > Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering
Elhami Khorasani, Negar; University at Buffalo, NY, USA > Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering
Language :
English
Title :
Urban infrastructure resilience to fire disaster: An overview
Publication date :
2016
Event name :
World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium – WMCAUS 2016
Event date :
13-17 June 2016
Audience :
International
Journal title :
Procedia Engineering
ISSN :
1877-7058
Publisher :
Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Special issue title :
World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium 2016, WMCAUS 2016
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