Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The construction of roads often involves cuts and embankments, requiring the use of earth retaining walls. This study estimates a resilience index for these systems based on four fundamental criteria: robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, and recovery. To achieve this, quantitative weightings based on a multicriteria analysis were applied to the service life of both a rigid and a flexible retaining wall systems near the city of Bogotá, Colombia, considering maximum surface acceleration and groundwater level variations. The results indicate a resilience index of 0.78 for the rigid system and 0.82 for the flexible system, indicating that the flexible system exhibits a higher resilience capacity. These findings can inform risk management policies and resource optimization strategies, ultimately reducing entropy during the design, construction, and operation phases of road projects.
Authors: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Jorge Arturo Pineda, Sherley Catheryne Larrañaga-Rubio, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Mario Guadalupe González-Pérez, Universidad de Guadalajara
Language: English
Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409003591