Risk analysis of underground infrastructures in urban areas

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• 作者：Enrico Cagno ; Massimiliano De Ambroggi ; Ottavio Gr ; e ; Paolo Trucco
• 关键词：Critical infrastructures ; Interoperability analysis ; Societal risk
• 刊名：Reliability Engineering and System Safety
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：January 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：96
• 期：1
• 页码：139-148
• 全文大小：2244 K

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The paper presents an integrated approach for vulnerability and resilience analysis for underground infrastructures, i.e. a societal risk analysis of the failures of underground services for an urban area. The approach is based on the detailed study of (1) domino-effects for the components of a single infrastructure and for a given set of infrastructures interoperated and/or belonging to the same area; (2) risk and vulnerability analysis of a given area; (3) identification of a set of intervention guidelines, in order to improve the overall system resilience. The use of an integrated (interoperability and area) approach, breaking down the analysis area extent into sub-areas and assessing the dependencies among sub-areas both in terms of interoperability and damage propagation of critical infrastructures, demonstrates a useful advantage in terms of resilience analysis, more consistent with the “zoned” nature of failures of the underground infrastructures. An applied case, describing the interoperability and damage propagation analysis with the evaluation of time-dependency for the infrastructures and targets and of different kinds of interventions of the underground infrastructures of a town, is presented for this purpose.