Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Strategies and
Countermeasures in US Highway Infrastructure
Outline
• Backgrounds
– Risk Management Hazard Mitigation
• Seismic Hazard Mitigation Measures/ Strategies / Solutions - Resilience
– Designing – New Bridges
• LRFD Seismic Design Guide Spec.
– Retrofitting – Existing Bridges
• Seismic Retrofitting Manual / Guidelines
– Planning – Risk Analysis Loss Estimation
• REDARS 2: Methodology and Software for Seismic Risk Analysis
of Highway Systems
• Current Seismic Studies Research Others Future Challenges
•
Likelihood of occurrence of a natural event in terms of
it’s maximum intensity
Weakness or fragility of roads/bridges against a
natural event
Quantitative expression of uncertainties and harmful
consequences associated with a hazard
•
Map of the United States susceptible
to various types of hazards.
2011 Tohouku Earthquake in Japan w/ Tsunami
9.0 Magnitude with almost 3g acceleration recorded
Hurricane
SANDY
CAT 2
Flooded homes in Tuckerton, N.J., on
Oct. 30 after Hurricane Sandy
• Earthquake
• Flood
• Scour
• Hurricane
• Vessel Collision
• Security
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THE CONCEPT OF RESILIENCE IN
HAZARD MITIGATIONS
Seismic Resilience Concept
System resilience, after Bruneau (Buckle and Lee, 2006).
Functionality Resilience
Infrastructure Resilience
• Resistance
• Reliability
• Redundancy
• Response and Recovery
US Highway Infrastructure Inventories
• ~ 600,000 Highway Bridges in the NBI
Data
• ~ 300 Tunnels
• ~ 4,200,000 miles Roads
Significant Earthquake Damages in the U.S. 1964-2001
Location
Date
Magnitude
Damages
Deaths
(in Millions)
Prince William Sound,
AK
03/27/1964
02/09/1971
10/17/1989
01/17/1994
02/28/2001
8.4
$311.0
$505.0
125
65
San Fernando, CA
Loma Prieta, CA
Northridge, CA
Nisqually, WA
6.6
7.1
6.7
6.8
$6,000.0
$20,000.0
$2,100.0
63
61
1?
Four Major Comprehensive Seismic Research
Studies in Highway Bridges
• Seismic Vulnerability Studies of Highway Constructions
– Existing Bridges (Initiated 1992, $12 M/ 6 years)
– New Bridges (
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