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The global disaster risk management community is setting new performance objectives for existing and next-generation civil infrastructures. Community-level performance goals are now geared towards improved post-disaster robustness and rapidity of recovery. This seminar will present recent studies that have contributed to advancing resilience-based design philosophy at the system and community levels. The first part of the seminar will focus on a novel repairability-based seismic design methodology of structural systems. This part aims to demonstrate how designing for repairability can help engineers achieve recovery-based design goals. The second part of the seminar will introduce a probabilistic decision support framework for enhancing community resilience. A case study is also presented.
Dr. Tayo Opabola is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at UC Berkeley. He received his B.E. (Civil and Industrial Engineering) and M.S. (Structural Engineering) from the Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Russia and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Tayo is a member of various ACI committees and a recipient of various awards and fellowships, including the EERI Shah Family Innovation Award and the EU Commission Marie Curie Individual Fellowship.