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INSTRUCTORS: 

• Nikola Blagojevic
• John W. van de Lindt
• Jong Sung Lee
• Matthew DeJong
• Adam Zsarnoczay

This techsession will only award PDHs for completion.

Purpose and Background

A Shared Computational Platform to Support Community Resilience Assessment (22 minutes)

This presentation will discuss experimental facilities where large-scale collaboration is occuring to advance the nation’s capability to simulate the impact of natural hazard events on structures, lifelines and communities. The current project period is occurring between 2015-2025, and a future initiative from 2026-2035 is under development. The computational modeling and simulation center creates an open-source and extensible application framework, integrates existing tools and data, and develops new software to provide the next-generation of regional disaster simulation tools. This supports researchers and practioners with education, training, and connects them with high-performance computing resources. Application framework, desktop applications, integration with online resources, and examples of simulations will be discussed.

Open-Source Platforms for Resilience Assessment of Communities and Regions to Natural Hazards (38 minutes)

Resilience is the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and recover rapidly from major disruptions caused, for example, by earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, and other hazards. Buildings and other facilities are designed at the individual facility level. Yet planning for a disaster by improving regional or community resilience requires geospatial models that are linked. Links range from the effects of the hazard(s) (e.g., simulated earthquake ground shaking, liquefaction, landslides and/or tsunamis) on the interdependent physical infrastructure to the subsequent effects on social institutions. A number of large multi-disciplinary research efforts focusing on regional disaster risk mitigation and recovery are being conducted around the world. In this session, the engineering and science behind open-source computational platforms from two major U.S.-based research centers will be presented. The session will include participation from U.S. National Science Foundation-funded Natural Hazards Equipment Research Infrastructure (NHERI) SimCenter and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology-funded Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning. Natural hazards damage simulations to urban infrastructure at both the regional and community scales will be presented with linkage to the socio-economics of recovery.

Learning outcomes and session benefits:

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Explain the meaning of resilience, which involves preparing for and adapting to changing conditions, as well as rapidly recovering from major disruptions caused by various hazards like earthquakes, floods, and tornadoes.
• Describe the importance of geospatial models that link various aspects in enhancing regional and community resilience.
• Define the engineering and scientific aspects behind open-source computational platforms for assessing natural hazards and their impact on urban infrastructure at different scales.
• Outline the computational workflows and tools offered by these platforms and how attendees can use and contribute to them.

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes are assessed by responding to the post-session survey. If the course is taken On-Demand, there will also be a 10-question multiple choice post-test.

Who Should Attend?

• Structural Engineers
• Risk Analysts
• Urban Planners
• Infrastructure Planners
• Urban and Regional Planners

How to Earn your PDHs

This course is worth 1 PDH. To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to attend the live session and/or watch the recording(s) and complete the post-session survey. If the course is taken OnDemand, there will also be a 10-question multiple choice post-test.