Modelling Interdependent Civil Infrastructure Systems

Modern communities are overarching systems that made up of other systems, characterised by the complex interactions that occur on multiple levels, such as the people, community groups, buildings, and civil infrastructure systems. Modelling the behaviour of such complex systems as they respond to and recover from an earthquake of high magnitude brings many challenges.

Prof. Bozidar Stojadinovic's talk "Modelling Interdependent Civil Infrastructure Systems for Seismic Resilience Evaluation and Design", will focus on modelling the interdependencies between various civil infrastructure systems that provide service, require sharing resources with one another, and jointly serve the needs of the people in a community stricken by an earthquake. A dynamic representation of dependencies among various components of infrastructure systems and community seismic resilience evaluation using the Re-CoDeS framework is key to the proposed model. He will also present on the performance-​based design of interdependent civil infrastructure systems to target community seismic resilience, which is the next challenge on hand.

Prof. Bozidar Stojadinovic is the professor of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering at ETH Zürich and is a member of the ETH Risk Center. He is also the cluster leader of "Resilience of High-​​Density Urban Systems" at Future Resilient Systems (FRS).

His main research is in the field of community disaster resilience and he specialises in performance-​based probabilistic resilience evaluation as well as the design of civil infrastructure systems, buildings, and bridges. At ETH Zurich, Professor Stojadinović teaches courses on seismic design, structural dynamics, and theory of structures. To date, his works have been published in more than 350 scholarly publications and he has graduated 41 doctoral students.