The design of structures and infrastructure facilities has typically assumed a future climate that is much the same as today’s. However, a changing climate and the resulting more extreme weather events mean those climate bands are becoming outdated, leaving infrastructure operating outside or at the limit of its tolerance levels.
With its evaluation of a host of assets in the built environment, Climate Change Effects on Infrastructure: Advanced Tools for Monitoring, Mitigation, and Lifecycle Optimization instructs readers how to assess and predict structural vulnerabilities resulting from climate change as well as ensuing hazard patterns using mathematical tools and data-driven models. The carefully compiled contributions also comprehensively survey the latest technological developments and the most useful approaches to counteract and/or prevent damage and connected socio-economic risks.
The volume proves to be an even more invaluable resource thanks to its real-world application examples that spotlight the urgency of further investigations into the implementation of cost-effective and sustainable adaptive measures that can enhance or extend the reliable performance, durability, and efficiency of structures and infrastructure systems throughout their entire lifecycle.
1. Introduction: The relationship between the built environment and climate change
Part I. Climate Change Impact on Infrastructure: Tools and Methods for Monitoring
2. Effects of increased wind loads due to climate change on tall buildings
3. Effects of climate change on the safety of high-rise buildings
4. Impact of climate change on civil infrastructure in permafrost regions
5. Impact of climate change on long-term structural reliability
6. Effect of climate change on slope stability
7. Effect of climate change on pavement design
8. Assessment of climate change impact on railway infrastructure
9. Analyzing the impact of climate change on road infrastructure and its development
10. Impact of underground climate change on civil infrastructure
11. Impact of climate change on water resources and infrastructure for their management
12. Effect of climate change on old infrastructure
13. Application of Artificial Intelligence for determining the effects of climate change on infrastructure
Part II. Climate Change Impact on Infrastructure: Tools and Methods for Mitigation and Lifecycle Optimization
14. Alternative structural designs as climate change mitigation measures
15. Building materials’ durability in the context of climate change
16. Climate change adaptation for corrosion control of concrete infrastructure
17. Adapting urban infrastructure to climate change
18. Green Infrastructure and climate change adaptation
19. Application of sensor technologies for monitoring and mitigating climate effects on infrastructure
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