Objective Resilience

Sponsored by the Objective Resilience Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCEObjective Resilience: Technology, MOP 148, examines the use of different technologies to enhance community and asset resilience and provides a comprehensive set of practices after presenting and discussing the basis for those practices.

Topics include the role of concrete in enhancing infrastructure resilience, role of structural steel in enhancing infrastructure resilience, resilience monitoring of highway bridges, objective resilience for railroad systems, remote sensing technology in disaster resilience, seismic isolation and protection devices in structural resilience, resilience of healthcare systems, and resilience and construction processes.

MOP 148 will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, policy makers, security consultants, and emergency and public-safety managers across the country.