Local floods induce large-scale abrupt failures of road networks

Weiping Wang; Saini Yang; H. Eugene Stanley; Jianxi Gao

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10063-w

Nature Communications (May 2019)

Local floods induce large-scale abrupt failures of road networks

Weiping Wang,
Saini Yang,
H. Eugene Stanley,
Jianxi Gao

Affiliations

Weiping Wang: State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University
Saini Yang: State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University
H. Eugene Stanley: Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University
Jianxi Gao: Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10063-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The spread of flood-induced failures in critical infrastructure systems is understudied. Here the authors apply the CaMa-Flood global river flood simulation model to estimate the flood-induced failures and their spread in China and the US and find that the number of flood-induced total failures is in-between that of random and localized damage given the same intensity.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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