ENCI610-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

Special Topic: Infrastructure Systems - Criticality and Lifelines

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 27 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 12 October 2018

Description

Special Topic: Infrastructure Systems - Criticality and Lifelines

Infrastructure Systems – Criticality and Lifelines introduces graduate students and engineering professionals to key concepts and analytical skills necessary for understanding hazards to and vulnerabilities of infrastructure systems, wider societal impacts from infrastructure failure, and managing these risks in the context of environmental change and socio-economic-political factors. Impacts of natural hazard-caused disasters and technological disasters on infrastructure lifelines will be explored through case studies to highlight issues of criticality, resilience, interdependencies and cascading effects. The course will provide students and engineering professionals: a background in how infrastructure development in Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally has exposed these systems to hazards; how to assess infrastructure lifelines vulnerability, resilience, and cascading effects when failure occurs; how to conduct disaster impact and loss assessments for infrastructure systems.

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of this course, participants will understand how infrastructure development exposes systems to hazards, and they will be able to assess system criticality, interdependencies and failure impacts. The course objectives are to:
  • Define infrastructure systems from technological and societal perspectives;
  • Review the historical development of selected systems e.g. transportation, water, electricity;
  • Appreciate infrastructure system exposure to: earthquake impacts including liquefaction; landslides; tsunamis; volcanoes; floods and other meteorological events; space weather. Natural hazard-caused technological disasters (Natech) and purely technological disasters will also be addressed;
  • Instil lessons learned from disasters including: 2010-2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence and the November 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake; other meteorological and technological events in Aotearoa/New Zealand; international case studies including earthquake, tsunami and volcano impacts on infrastructure;
  • Define and assess criticality at component, network and interdependency levels;
  • Analyse cascading failure impacts using event and fault trees, and the bowtie method;
  • Identify and assess critical interdependencies, pinch-points and hazard hotspots using Aotearoa/New Zealand National Lifelines Council methods;
  • Conduct a resilience assessment of part or whole of an infrastructure system;
  • Conduct disaster impact and loss assessments for infrastructure systems using the computer programs RiskScape and Post-Disaster Cities;
  • Understand key drivers and limitations of asset management and investment for resilience.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Director of Studies

Timetable Note

This course will be block taught on the following days, 9am-5pm:

27-28 August 2018
3-5 Sept 2018

Contact Person

Matthew Hughes

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Report 10% Event and Fault Tree Analysis report
report 10% Hotspot and Pinch-Point Analysis
Report 40% Risk Scape Impact and Loss Assessment
Report 40% Final Project - Infrastructure Resilience Assessment


Notes:

i. General Information
• The deadlines for all assignments are displayed on the Course Schedule and on LEARN
• Any changes to submission dates or other details will be communicated through LEARN. It is the responsibility of each student to check the LEARN website regularly
• Assessments must be submitted by the due date on LEARN. Marks will be posted online as soon as they are available.
• Our aim is to provide feedback on assessments within one month. Where this is not possible, it will be communicated to you.
• All submissions should be single (typed) PDF documents. Specific formatting requirements for individual assessment swill be made available prior to course commencement.

ii. Hotspot and Pinch-Point Analysis
• Upon enrolment, students will be sent Preliminary GIS Exercise instructions and data so they can independently learn GIS basics in preparation for the Hotspot and Pinch-Point session in the block course. Students will also be issued an individual ArcGIS Student Licence so they can install the GIS software on their personal laptop or PC so that can work off-campus or outside of computer teaching laboratories.

iii. Final Project – Infrastructure Resilience Assessment
• For the Final Project–Infrastructure Resilience Assessment students will use a resilience assessment tool with which to engage a utility provider/asset manager, in order to assess disaster resilience of some component, part of a network or whole of a system. Identification of and partnering with a utility provider/asset manager will begin prior to course commencement in consultation with the Course Coordinator.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,059.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 5 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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