Full Description
Healthcare facilities or hospital systems are classified as some of the most critical infrastructure systems when responding to natural disasters. Seismic Resilience Assessment of Hospital Infrastructure systematically presents a suite of novel techniques developed by the authors and their team for seismic resilience assessment of hospital infrastructure, with particular emphasis on seismic tests and fragility models of hospital equipment, resilience assessment of single hospital buildings and emergency departments, and post-earthquake functionality of urban hospital infrastructures.
Features:
Presents a state-of-the-art review on hospital resilience
Develops seismic fragility model database for hospital equipment based on shaking table tests
Provides a road map for effective and efficient methods necessary for assessing and improving seismic resilience of hospital systems and other critical engineering systems
Expertly summarizes outcomes of many important research projects sponsored by various research agencies, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Contents
1. Introduction and Background 2. Seismic Force Demands on Acceleration-Sensitive Nonstructural Components 3. Floor Response Spectra for Seismic Design and Tests of Nonstructural Components 4. Shaking Table Tests and Seismic Fragility Analysis of Typical Hospital Equipment 5. A Quantitative Framework to Evaluate the Seismic Resilience of Hospital Systems 6. Seismic Resilience Assessment of Emergency Departments Based on the State Tree Method 7. Infrastructure Systems and Healthcare Network in a Benchmark City 8. Post-Earthquake Healthcare Service Accessibility in a Benchmark City 9. Summary and Remarks
