A QUANTITATIVE STUDY ON THE RESILIENCE OF HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL CENTERS (CASE STUDY OF MADANI HOSPITAL IN KARAJ)

One of the main challenges of this century for high-seismic cities is to prepare for natural disasters, especially earthquakes to reduce the vulnerability and increase seismic resilience. Seismic resilience indicates the ability to maintain a level of functionality or performance of a building, bridge, lifeline network, or community over a specified period of time determined as a TLC or control time (Figure 1). Resilience is defined geometrically as a normalized shaded area below the functional diagram of the system, determined as Q(t). Q(t) is an invariant stochastic process that is measured as a percentage in terms of the dimensionless function of time.In the case of multiple events, each event is expressed as a continuous piece of independent function (Figure 2).Mathematically, the resilience of several events can express with Equation (1).

کلیدواژه ها:

Seismic resilience ، Risk reduction ، Hospitals and healthcare centers ، Prioritization of retrofit and rehabilitation ، Cost-benefit function