Seismic Resilience Assessment of Hospital Infrastructure [Hardcover]

Seismic Resilience Assessment of Hospital Infrastructure?presents a suite of novel techniques developed by the authors and their team for seismic resilience assessment of hospital infrastructure, with particular emphasis on seismic tests and fragility models of hospital equipment and the resilience of hosptial buildings.

1. Introduction and Background  2. Seismic Force Demands on Acceleration-Sensitive Nonstructural Components  3. Floor Response Spectra for Seismic Design and Tests of Nonstructural Components  4. Shaking Table Tests and Seismic Fragility Analysis of Typical Hospital Equipment  5. A Quantitative Framework to Evaluate the Seismic Resilience of Hospital Systems  6. Seismic Resilience Assessment of Emergency Departments Based on the State Tree Method  7. Infrastructure Systems and Healthcare Network in a Benchmark City  8. Post-Earthquake Healthcare Service Accessibility in a Benchmark City  9. Summary and Remarks

Dr. Qingxue Shang obtained his bachelors degree from Southeast University, China, in 2015. He obtained his masters and PhD degrees from the Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, in 2018 and 2021, respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University and then joined China Earthquake Disaster Prevention Center in 2023. He has got the support of the Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund Project, National Key Research and Development Plan Project, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Program. His research aims to evaluate and improve the seismic resilience of our society and community. His recent works and publications include the resilience assessment of hospital systems, power systems, and water distribution networks, and some relӞ