Development of a GIS software for evaluating network relibility of lifelines under seismic hazard

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2010
Oduncuoğlu, Lütfi
Lifelines are vital networks and it is important that those networks are still be functional after major natural disasters such as earthquakes. The goal of this study is to develop a GIS software for evaluating network reliability of lifelines under seismic hazard. In this study, GIS, statistics and facility management is used together and a GIS software module, which constructs GIS based reliability maps of lifeline networks, is developed by using geoTools. Developed GIS module imports seismic hazard and lifeline network layers in GIS formats using geoTools libraries and after creating a gridded network structure it uses a network reliability algorithm, initially developed by Yoo and Deo (1988), to calculate the upper and lower bounds of lifeline network reliability under seismic hazard. Also it can show the results in graphical form and save as shape file format. In order to validate the developed application, results are compared with a former case study of Selcuk (2000) and the results are satisfactorily close to previous study. As a result of this study, an easy to use, GIS based software module that creates GIS based reliability map of lifelines under seismic hazard was developed.

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L. Oduncuoğlu, “Development of a GIS software for evaluating network relibility of lifelines under seismic hazard,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.