Towards the Design of Resilient Large-scale Engineering Systems
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Authors
Jonathan Mak, WH
John Clarkson, P
Publication Date
2017-01-01Journal Title
Procedia CIRP
ISSN
2212-8271
Volume
60
Pages
536-541
Type
Conference Object
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Jonathan Mak, W., & John Clarkson, P. (2017). Towards the Design of Resilient Large-scale Engineering Systems. Procedia CIRP, 60 536-541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.01.034
Abstract
Resilience has mostly been thought of as the ability to recover from adversity. However, it is now increasingly recognised that resilience should
not only serve as a means for organisations to survive hardship, but also to thrive and prosper. For large-scale engineering systems, such as
telecommunications networks and power grids, this is vital due to relatively long life cycles leading to large uncertainties, and also due to the
significant investments involved. Exactly how this and thus resilience should be designed into such systems, however, is less well defined.
Here, the term resilience is explored through engineering, organisational and ecological literature to understand differing perspectives from
select domains before distilling these into the three engineering design lifecycle properties: robustness, adaptability and flexibility. In particular,
a distinction is highlighted between adaptability and flexibility following findings in literature. These properties and the concept of resilience
are discussed with reference to system performance in order to serve as requirements for designing large-scale resilient engineering systems.
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EPSRC (1477095)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.01.034
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274171
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Licence URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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