Propagation-Aware Stabilization: A Systems Framework for Dynamic Resilience in Highly Coupled Infrastructures

Modern infrastructures increasingly operate as highly coupled, synchronization-sensitive systems vulnerable to cascading instability, transient overload amplification, and propagation-driven failure. This paper introduces Propagation-Aware Stabilization (PAS), a generalized systems-engineering framework that reframes resilience as a problem of disturbance propagation control rather than static capacity alone. The framework examines how synchronization preservation, transient damping, localized buffering, and propagation suppression may reduce amplification-sensitive failure across interconnected environments including electrical grids, superconducting systems, distributed propulsion architectures, and other dynamically coupled infrastructures. Rather than proposing a universal physical law, PAS synthesizes recurring stabilization principles observed across multiple engineering domains into a propagation-centered resilience framework intended to guide future systems architecture, dynamic testing, and infrastructure stabilization research.