3.30.21-Built-Franz-Josef-Ulm

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  Resilience is the time it takes to bring a system after an extreme event to the same or higher performance. This requires that architects, engineers and builders, go beyond our comfort zone of classical design tools. Physics-based Molecular-Dynamics inspired engineering tools permit just this: implementing, into our design practice, the critical link between damage inventory of structural and non-structural elements to extreme events: storms, fire, flooding… This damage inventory serves as input for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis that permit evaluating the return of investment of structural resilience enhancement such as shear walls, sprinkler systems and so on, at building, community and city scale. Through a number of applications, we show that this new approach of quantitative physics-based engineering resilience, resilience of buildings and infrastructure is a key lever for the sustainable development of our societies.

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