M.B. Javanbarg, Willis Research Fellow, Kyoto University

C. Scawthorn, WRN Senior Acadmic, Kyoto University

S. Takada, Kyoto University

Paper submitted to to ASCE conference (TCLEE 2009) to be held in Oakland in June 2009. The authors look at developing a fuzzy decision support system.

In general, the cost of seismic upgrading in a critical infrastructure system is large but the financial resources are limited. Hence, a priority list of infrastructure components for upgrading is necessary.

 

This paper develops a fuzzy decision support system (FDSS) for priority evaluation of the components upgrading in the urban infrastructure systems considering customers importance, component properties, hazard factors and economic analysis.