Resilience Assessment of Community Infrastructure
Leveraging HPC Resources at DesignSafe-CI and Interoperability with IN-CORE

About the Webinar

The recent decade has seen a rise in community resilience modeling, including a quest to model infrastructure resilience (its exposure, damage, and restoration) under extreme events. These efforts entail measuring, visualizing, and probing alternatives to support mitigation, recovery, and resilience-enhancing interventions. However, the practice demands developing different input sub-models, considering various layers of uncertainty, and integrating these for the final assessment.

In this webinar, we present how the resources of the DesignSafe Cyberinfrastructure (DesignSafe-CI) can support such efforts. We present different tools that can be leveraged from DesignSafe directly or through its interoperability with other platforms, such as the Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE). We present illustrative examples of how to leverage publicly available data in DesignSafe-CI and models within the IN-CORE platform to create an infrastructure resilience assessment pipeline. These examples are developed and analyzed using JupyterLab in DesignSafe. Furthermore, we present how JupyterLab HPC in DesignSafe-CI enhances the modeling and testing capabilities as the analysis of larger infrastructure systems (e.g., detailed transportation networks) becomes feasible.

Finally, approaches that leverage the CI are presented for visualization, curation, and publication of results for the broader community. This webinar promotes the sharing of data, models, and workflows to facilitate resilience modeling within communities.

Presenter

Jamie E. Padgett is the Stanley C. Moore Professor and Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. Padgett is a structural engineer whose research is focused on multi-hazard risk and resilience modeling of structures and infrastructure systems, while understanding their impacts on communities. She has received such honors as the Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Award (2024), TAMEST Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award (2023), and the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES) Fellowship (2021-2022). Padgett serves in leadership roles within several large national research efforts including the NIST funded Center of Excellence for Risk-based Resilience Planning and the NHERI Cyberinfrastructure “DesignSafe”.

Raul Rincon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. He works with Dr. Jamie Ellen Padgett on smart and equitable techniques for measuring and modeling dynamic resilience in infrastructure systems. Raul’s research focuses on infrastructure systems operating under progressive and shock-based hazards, particularly on methods and mechanisms to facilitate adaptive, resilient, and equitable performance. Before joining Rice, Rincon received his M.S. and B.S. in civil engineering from the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Among other awards and fellowships, he received the Mario Galan Gomez Scholarship, the Fulbright Scholarship, and first place in the Objective Resilience Student Competition at the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) 2024 conference.