Mimicking nature for resilient resource and infrastructure network design.

ABSTRACT: Increasingly prevalent extreme weather events have caused resilience to become an essential sustainable development component for resource and infrastructure networks. Existing resilience metrics require detailed knowledge of the system and potential disruptions, which is not available in the early design stage. The lack of quantitative tools to guide the early stages of design for resilience, forces engineers to rely on heuristics (use physical redundancy, localized capacity, etc.). This research asserts that the required quantitative guidelines can be developed using the architecting principles of biological ecosystems, which maintain a unique balance between pathway redundancy and efficiency, enabling them to be both productive under normal circumstances and survive disruptions. Ecologi

SUBMITTER: Chatterjee A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7385727 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature