Diverse natural and manmade disasters are becoming more frequent inflicting severe consequences to the environment, societies, economies and critical infrastructure. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to sustain the functionality and operability of critical infrastructure during and after the hazard event, minimize the direct and indirect losses and mitigate the consequences in the aftermath of a disaster. In the last few years, the need to develop risk analysis and risk management tools was emerged, toward facilitating stakeholders’ decision-making, adaptation and preparedness against diverse hazards for enhancing the resilience of cities, infrastructure and societies. Those tools were either newly developed or built on existing loss assessment platforms. In addition to the modules and functions for loss assessments, such as hazard, fragility, damage assessment, visualization and reporting of the results, some of the tools embedded modules for recovery, decision-making and risk mitigation to facilitate resilience assessments whenever feasible.

The range of modules is wide, including identification of likely failures and performance of structural and infrastructure systems, recovery of loss of functionality and preparation of recovery plans for disaster events. Thus, resilience assessment tools are becoming more sophisticated, aiming to assist engineers, decision makers and planners to perform a resilience-based design or/and assessment of individual buildings, critical infrastructure and cities, and in this way to withstand and recover from catastrophic events.

In this paper, a review of on-market available tools is presented, and then developments, limitations and future needs are discussed.