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Throughout the course of 15 years, “resilience” has evolved from an extraordinary term to define the “capability,” including in accident cases, to rebound from damage, pain or deformation, to becoming an increasingly commonly known “buzz word.” Google searches can informally evaluate the emerging popularity of the term (not strictly scientifically, but informatively). In July 2016, 47,000,000 “hits” were checked for “resilience” alone, up from 7,880,000,000 six years before. The most notable aspect, in adding ‘Obama’ and ‘resilience’ almost 3⁄4 million hits, is that six years ago there were only 0.4 million hits, which is no surprise, because President Obama released a presidential order compelling all federal departments to enact resilience-enhancing policies (White House, 2013). 17,300 findings were reported, up from 6,200 six years earlier for the quest for the mixture of “technical resilience.” Just 2,470 times, up from 953 six years ago, was identified for the combination “quantifying resiliency” and only three times was identified for the “quantification of tech resilience” up from just one result six years earlier (a quest for Google that offers one single hit is considered “Google’s wake,” and is a uncommon event). Surprisingly enough, the hits received from such queries indicate that, except for the case of “resilience” alone, such findings have tripled roughly from 2010 to 2016.

Figure 1.12 Resilience seismic concept [58].

Either the word “resilience,” though staying important, has grown with an unprecedented elasticity (Figure 1.12), or the above indicate that “resilience” may have been the base of a modern Tower of Babel, in which all inhabitants speak without comprehension. A term of resilience which implies everything and all to everyone is definitely not an especially useful concept since it avoids meaning, consistency and therefore renders it intangible for practical purposes when the aim is to increase group resilience in the way can be calculated. It highlights the importance that such values and the stringent application of ‘resilience’ be re-established in this unique sense. This is discussed below and reflects in a way important to engineers on durability.