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Maximum entropy-based modeling of community-level hazard responses for civil infrastructures

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  • Chu, Xiaolei
  • Wang, Ziqi

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Perturbed by natural hazards, community-level infrastructure networks operate like many-body systems, with behaviors emerging from coupling individual component dynamics with group correlations and interactions. It follows that we can borrow methods from statistical physics to study the response of infrastructure systems to natural disasters. This study aims to construct a joint probability distribution model to describe the post-hazard state of infrastructure networks and propose an efficient surrogate model of the joint distribution for large-scale systems. Specifically, we present maximum entropy modeling of the regional impact of natural hazards on civil infrastructures. Provided with the current state of knowledge, the principle of maximum entropy yields the “most unbiased“ joint distribution model for the performances of infrastructures. In the general form, the model can handle multivariate performance states and higher-order correlations. In a particular yet typical scenario of binary performance state variables with knowledge of their mean and pairwise correlation, the joint distribution reduces to the Ising model in statistical physics. In this context, we propose using a dichotomized Gaussian model as an efficient surrogate for the maximum entropy model, facilitating the application to large systems. Using the proposed method, we investigate the seismic collective behavior of a large-scale road network (with 8,694 nodes and 26,964 links) in San Francisco, showcasing the non-trivial collective behaviors of infrastructure systems.

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  • Chu, Xiaolei & Wang, Ziqi, 2025. "Maximum entropy-based modeling of community-level hazard responses for civil infrastructures," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 254(PA).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:254:y:2025:i:pa:s0951832024006604
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2024.110589
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