Framework for Earthquake Risk Assessment for Container Ports

摘要: As critical transportation infrastructure, ports are vulnerable to a variety of natural disasters. On the West Coast United States, earthquakes concern. Currently, risk management practices for seismic design in consider only performance individual wharf and crane structures. The do not how damage downtime these structures might disrupt overall port system's ship-handling operations or what regional, national, even international economic impacts could result from extended earthquake-induced disruption major container port. Managing risks systemwide disruptions caused by earthquake is focus Grand Challenge project sponsored National Science Foundation Network Earthquake Engineering Simulation program. This paper provides an overview concepts methods developed assessment portwide system berths (with their particular structures). also pr...