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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Development of Economic Evaluation Methodology of Anti-quake Design for Port Facilities considering Catastrophic Risk

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15510156
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Natural disaster science
Research InstitutionNational Institute for Land, Infrastructure and Management

Principal Investigator

SHIBASAKI Ryuichi  National Institute for Land, Infrastructure and Management, Port Systems Division, Port and Harbour Department, Researcher, 港湾研究部港湾システム研究室, 研究官 (50323514)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) IEDA Hitoshi  the University of Tokyo, School of Engineering, Professor, 大学院・工学系研究科, 教授 (90168089)
NAGAO Tsuyoshi  National Institute for Land, Infrastructure and Management, Port and Harbour Department, Head of Port Facilities Division, 港湾研究部港湾施設研究室, 室長 (30356042)
WATANABE Tomihiro  National Institute for Land, Infrastructure and Management, Port and Harbour Department, Head of Port Systems Division, 港湾研究部港湾システム研究室, 室長 (10356040)
Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2005
KeywordsAnti-quake Design / Gravity-type Quay Wall / Economic Evaluation / Freight Transport / Catastrophic Risk / Risk with very low Probability / Fragility Curve
Research Abstract

When performing economic evaluations of quaywalls, breakwaters, and other port facilities, it is essential to consider not only the cost of construction and improvement of facilities and the cost of reconstructing facilities that have been damaged by an earthquake, but to also consider the loss of economic activities when they are damaged. In addition, a stochastic evaluation method must be developed, because these economic losses are very dependent on the state of damaged facilities. Thus the objective of this paper is to develop a stochastic evaluation method that can evaluate the economic impact of port facilities considering the cost of the loss of freight transportation, taking gravity-type quay walls as an example of port facilities.
The problem is formulated as choosing the seismic coefficient of specific port facilities by the following procedure. i)First, for each gravity type quaywall that is evaluated, preparing the earthquake occurrence probability by scale defined for each … More port and its hypothetical section for each seismic coefficient, Next ii)estimating the state of damage that would occur by a Monte Carlo simulation based on the fragility curves by damage state that are provided for each hypothetical section. Then iii)estimating the restoration cost and loss of freight transportation cost for each pattern, while also considering the state of damage to neighboring ports. iv)calculating the expected damage by earthquakes with each seismic coefficient by summarizing the estimated cost of an earthquake of each scale multiplied by its occurrence frequency. And finally, v)totaling the construction cost and the expected damage obtained by iv)and setting a seismic coefficient that will minimize this total cost.
The proposed method is applied to container berths in two sample ports. The first is a case of a port with only a single berth for container cargo, and the other is a case of a port with multiple berths for container cargo. The results show that the optimal seismic coefficients that are estimated occasionally differ depending on whether or not the cost of the loss of freight transportation was considered. Less

  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2005

All Journal Article (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 経済損失を考慮した期待総費用最小化のための岸壁の常時レベル1信頼性設計法2005

    • Author(s)
      長尾毅, 柴崎隆一, 尾崎竜三
    • Journal Title

      構造工学論文集 51-A

      Pages: 389-400

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Level-1 reliability-based design method for port and harbor facilities under ordinal conditions for minimization of expected total cost2005

    • Author(s)
      Ryuzo Ozaki, Takashi Nagao, Ryuichi Shibasaki
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR'05) 9-192(CD-ROM)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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