Fail-Safe vs. Safe-To-Fail Systems: How to Design Resilient Infrastructure?

Large direct and indirect impacts across national and international boundaries of natural disasters like 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, infrastructure failures, like the 2001 U.S. North-East blackout, epidemics like the H1N1 influenza, terrorist attacks like the 9/11, and social unrests like the Arab Spring are indicative of the vulnerability associated with growing complexity. There is an urgent need to understand resilience of complex systems to move from the fail-safe paradigm to safe-to-fail approached to engineering. This talk will introduce the concept of resilience along with its various definitions; discuss the relationship between resilience and sustainability; and present ways to build resilient systems of the future.

Speaker: Prof. Shauhrat CHOPRA
Medium of Language: English

Interested secondary schools are welcome to contact the School at the following methods for arrangement.
By email: see.enquiry@cityu.edu.hk
By fax: 3442 0688