@article{AltherrEdererPoettgenetal.2015,
  author    = {Altherr, Lena and Ederer, Thorsten and P{\"o}ttgen, Philipp and Lorenz, Ulf and Pelz, Peter F.},
  title     = {Multicriterial optimization of technical systems considering multiple load and availability scenarios},
  series = {Applied Mechanics and Materials},
  volume    = {807},
  journal   = {Applied Mechanics and Materials},
  editor    = {Pelz, Peter F. and Groche, Peter},
  isbn      = {1660-9336},
  doi       = {10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.807.247},
  pages     = {247 -- 256},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Cheap does not imply cost-effective -- this is rule number one of zeitgeisty system design. The initial investment accounts only for a small portion of the lifecycle costs of a technical system. In fluid systems, about ninety percent of the total costs are caused by other factors like power consumption and maintenance. With modern optimization methods, it is already possible to plan an optimal technical system considering multiple objectives. In this paper, we focus on an often neglected contribution to the lifecycle costs: downtime costs due to spontaneous failures. Consequently, availability becomes an issue.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{LorenzAltherrPelz2020,
  author    = {Lorenz, Imke-Sophie and Altherr, Lena and Pelz, Peter F.},
  title     = {Resilience enhancement of critical infrastructure - graph-theoretical resilience analysis of the water distribution system in the German city of Darmstadt},
  series = {14th WCEAM Proceedings},
  booktitle = {14th WCEAM Proceedings},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Cham},
  isbn      = {978-3-030-64228-0},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-64228-0_13},
  pages     = {137 -- 149},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Water suppliers are faced with the great challenge of achieving high-quality and, at the same time, low-cost water supply. Since climatic and demographic influences will pose further challenges in the future, the resilience enhancement of water distribution systems (WDS), i.e. the enhancement of their capability to withstand and recover from disturbances, has been in particular focus recently. To assess the resilience of WDS, graph-theoretical metrics have been proposed. In this study, a promising approach is first physically derived analytically and then applied to assess the resilience of the WDS for a district in a major German City. The topology based resilience index computed for every consumer node takes into consideration the resistance of the best supply path as well as alternative supply paths. This resistance of a supply path is derived to be the dimensionless pressure loss in the pipes making up the path. The conducted analysis of a present WDS provides insight into the process of actively influencing the resilience of WDS locally and globally by adding pipes. The study shows that especially pipes added close to the reservoirs and main branching points in the WDS result in a high resilience enhancement of the overall WDS.},
  language  = {en}
}