Infrastructure resilience for high-impact low-chance risks

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering

Volumn 165, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 13-19

  Blockley, David ^a   Agarwal, Jitendra ^a   Godfrey, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Failures; Infrastructure planning; Risk and probability analysis

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERS; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY ANALYSIS; URBAN TRANSPORT;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

RISKS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY; RESILIENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN TRANSPORT; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84871002733     PISSN: 0965089X     EISSN: 17517672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/cien.11.00046     Document Type: Article

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