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Resilience

Disaster & failure studies

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Flood Performance and Dislocation Assessment for Lumberton Homes after Hurricane Matthew

May 26, 2019
Author(s)
Derya Deniz, Elaina Sutley, John W. van de Lindt, Walter G. Peacock, Nathanael Rosenheim, Donghwan Gu, Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Maria Dillard, Maria Koliou, Sara Hamideh
In order to better understand community resilience following a disaster, a multi-disciplinary research team from the Center of Excellence (CoE) for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Integrative Modeling of Housing Recovery as a Physical, Economic, and Social Process

May 26, 2019
Author(s)
Elaina Sutley, Sara Hamideh, Maria Dillard, Donghwan Gu, Kijin Seong, John W. van de Lindt
This paper presents a set of four simultaneous housing recovery states: RS0 no recovery progress; RS1 repair completion; RS2 re-occupancy; RS3 restored stability; RS4 restored accessibility. The recovery states are aimed at capturing the complex

Research Needs to Support Immediate Occupancy Building Performance Following Natural Hazard Events

August 21, 2018
Author(s)
Siamak Sattar, Therese P. McAllister, Katherine J. Johnson, Christopher T. Clavin, Christopher L. Segura, Steven L. McCabe, Juan F. Fung, Leslie Abrahams, Emily Sylak-Glassman , Marc L. Levitan, Kenneth W. Harrison, John L. Harris
The performance of buildings in our communities depends on multiple factors including the availability of supporting infrastructure, the original design, the current condition and capacity to resist hazard impacts, and the ability to recover functionality

A Review of Public Response to Short Message Alerts under Imminent Threat

January 9, 2018
Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, Jessie Doermann
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s Technical Investigation of the 2011 Joplin, MO tornado identified that no widely accepted standards exist for emergency communications in tornado events and more specifically, policies involving

Applying Measurement Science to Evaluate Ground, Aerial, and Aquatic Robots

October 12, 2017
Author(s)
Adam S. Jacoff, Rick Candell, Anthony Downs, Hui-Min Huang, Kenneth Kimble, Kamel Saidi, Ann Virts
This paper reports on three measurement science field exercises for evaluating ground, aerial, and aquatic robots. These events, conducted from February to June 2017, were conducted in close co-ordination with the responder community, standards

2015 Location-Based Services R&D Summit Report

January 30, 2017
Author(s)
Harris Feldman, Adam H. Danielson
The Public Safety Communications Research Program (PSCR) convened over 80 stakeholders at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder, CO campus to build on the findings presented in the 2015 Location-Based Services (LBS) Summit- held

The Next-Generation Firefighter: The Evolution of Technology

October 14, 2016
Author(s)
Kayla A. Berger, Jacob R. Crouse, Jaden Pieper
In 2013, United States fire departments responded to around 1 240 000 Fires, accounting for 106 firefighter deaths [9][7]. These fires also resulted in 3,240 civilian deaths and an estimated $11.5 billion in property damage. When responding to fires

Guide Brief 1 - Characterize the Population

September 30, 2016
Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
This Guide Brief provides additional rationale and guidance regarding the first part of Step 2 in the Guide, “Characterize social functions and dependencies” which starts with “Characterize the population.” The intended audience is the social dimensions

Guide Brief 2 - Identify Social Institutions

September 30, 2016
Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
This Guide Brief provides additional rationale and guidance regarding Step 2 in the Guide—“Understand the Situation” —for how to “Identify Social Institutions”. The primary intended audience is the social dimensions work group of the collaborative planning

Guide Brief 4 - Determining Anticipated Performance

September 30, 2016
Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
This Guide Brief provides guidance for determining the anticipated performance of building clusters and infrastructure systems when subjected to hazard events. This information is needed to complete the performance goals tables, establish existing system

Guide Brief 4A: Example for Determining Anticipated Performance

September 30, 2016
Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
This Guide Brief provides an example of how to determine the anticipated performance of water and wastewater systems subjected to an earthquake and tsunami event. The methodology used for this can be applied to all infrastructure systems. The example