A Framework and Case Study for the Resilience of Infrastructures
This chapter defines resilience in different contexts comprehensively, and organizes the mathematical theory of network resilience by providing a generalization in order to create a quantitative framework for resilience characterization of an infrastructure network. At this point, a new performance index measuring delivery importance was employed for an applied purpose and an industrial example using realistic data was solved to evaluate the resilience of the entire network. It can be utilized for any type of hazard which might lead to the disruption of the system. The principles and theory in this study can also be applied to other infrastructures that are interconnected and operate as a network, such as transporting systems, electrical power, water supply and distribution systems.