Seismic resilience of a hospital system

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 127-144

  Cimellaro, Gian Paolo ^a   Reinhorn, Andrei M ^b   Bruneau, Michel ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragility; Functionality; Hospital; Losses; Recovery; Resilience

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; CRITICAL FACILITIES; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; DISASTER VULNERABILITY; EXTREME EVENTS; FRAGILITY; FUNCTIONALITY; HEALTHCARE FACILITY; LOSS ESTIMATION; MEMPHIS; META MODEL; MILITARY BUILDINGS; RECOVERY MODEL; RECOVERY PROCESS; RESEARCH TRENDS; RESILIENCE INDEX; SEISMIC RESILIENCE; TRANSPORTATION NETWORK; WATER SYSTEM;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; RECOVERY;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 77951650443     PISSN: 15732479     EISSN: 17448980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732470802663847     Document Type: Article

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