Buildings and Infrastructure Protection Series

Buildings and Infrastructure Protection Series Preventing Structures from Collapsing to Limit Damage to Adjacent Structures and Additional Loss of Life when Explosives Devices Impact Highly Populated Urban Centers

Modeling In-Use Steel Stock in China's Buildings and Civil Engineering Infrastructure Using Time-Series of DMSP/OLS Nighttime Lights

China’s rapid urbanization has led to increasing steel consumption for buildings and civil engineering infrastructure. The in-use steel stock in the same is considered to be closely related to social welfare and urban metabolism. Traditional approaches for determining the in-use steel stock are labor-intensive and time-consuming processes and always hindered by the availability of statistical d...

VR Platform for Protection Modeling of Critical Infrastructures

Current protection of critical infrastructures is often based on disparate and incompatible systems, with various grains and time scales and different control concerns. Our vision is that the heterogeneous control and security systems should be loosely but effectively integrated by the platform that generates the virtual models of the infrastructure. The introduced VR platform aims to integrate...

Critical Thinking: Moving from Infrastructure Protection to Infrastructure Resilience CIPP Discussion Paper Series Resilience: A Systems Design Imperative

The Helpful Environment: Distributed Agents and Services Which Cooperate

Imagine a future environment where networks of agents people, robots and software agents interact with sophisticated sensor grids and environmental actuators to provide advice, protection and aid. The systems will be integral to clothing, communications devices, vehicles, transportation systems, buildings, and pervasive in the environment. Vehicles and buildings could assist both their occupant...