Optimizing Post-Earthquake Lifeline System Reliability

Proceedings of the Fifth U.S. Conference on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, held in Seattle, Washington, August 12-14, 1999. Sponsored by the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering of ASCE.

This TCLEE Monograph contains more than 100 papers presenting new developments and emerging practices that advance the state of knowledge of lifeline earthquake engineering around the world.

Topics include:

• transportation systems;
• seismic hazards;
• pipelines;
• transportation projects;
• seismic risk analysis;
• water and wastewater;
• transportation criteria and analysis;
• port issues;
• social and economic issues;
• electric power;
• bridges, tunnels, and railroads;
• seismic risk applications;
• issues in implementation and investigation; and
• multihazard risk assessment.

This proceedings focuses on lifeline topics of critical interest to the problems of infrastructure performance at the start of a new millennium.