A framework for resilience analysis of infrastructure systems

Undoubtedly, infrastructure is the backbone of the world’s economies. This include transportation networks, such as bridges, tunnels, subways, railways, ship yard cranes; water delivery, utilities, dams, various pipeline networks, power transmission, communication network, government centers, and large business centers. Resilience research for infrastructure networks covers multifaceted and multidisciplinary domains encompassing risk analysis, uncertainty quantification, reliability design, vulnerability mitigation, performance improvement, sustainable development. It is characterized of diversity, efficiency, adaptability, and cohesion. However, a holistic framework for creating resilient infrastructure systems regarding component, system and system-of-systems levels has not been established by incorporating technical, organizational, economic, social and environmental, and ecological dimensions. In this paper, basic concepts of resilience, ecology and sustainability are introduced first. Then given associated performance metrics and interdependency of critical infrastructure systems are presented and discussed the importance of big data and data mining to foster decision-making and accountability to plan for any expansion in resilience services, resources, and the associated performance metrics and interdependency of critical infrastructure systems are presented. We found after study, due to the difficulty and complexity of resilience, and its definitional ambiguity, the ability to assess such a concept helps to bridge the gap between theory and application, between academic and policy circles. A framework for creating resilient, ecological and sustainable infrastructure systems is proposed in a more holistic and comprehensive way. This framework is shown promising for its effectiveness and efficiency in modeling, designing and assessing system resilience. Finally, the review reveals that several opportunities are available for apply the resilience on infrastructure; however, there are still many issues and challenges to be addressed to achieve better utilization of this technology, and the new evaluation methodology for the resilience system used gave specific and satisfied results and completely methodology for resilience evaluation.