GEO-PACE · Geotechnical Performance and Climatic Effects
7РП — „Хора“ (Действия „Мария Кюри“)
- Период
- 2013-06-01 → 2017-05-31
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 100 000 €
- Участници
- 1
- Схема
- MC-CIG
Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.
Накратко на български
Климатичните промени и техният ефект върху стабилността на склонове, като пътни насипи и защитни стени срещу наводнения, са в центъра на анализа. Разбирането на тези процеси помага при проектирането и поддръжката на по-надеждна геотехническа инфраструктура.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Geotechnical Performance and Climatic Effects
The Marie Curie Career Integration Grant 'Geotechnical Performance and Climatic Effects (GEO-PACE)' undertaken by Dr Philip Vardon has now been finalised. The grant has allowed Dr Vardon to integrate into his new university (Delft University of Technology) and into a new scientific funding system while continuing a high level of research output. The proposal aimed to investigate the impact of climatic change on slopes as a major part of geotechnical infrastructure. Such infrastructure is pervasive around the world as a cost-effective method of forming topographical change for highway embankments/cuttings, flooding defences and retaining walls. Much of the infrastructure is aging and there are significant costs in maintaining it, for example over €800m per year in the Netherlands. An investigation into the potential effects of more extreme weather due to climate change and how this could affect the stability and reliability of geotechnical slopes was proposed. The work aimed to develop robust understanding of the processes and produce computational numerical tools that could be used in the assessment and design of existing and new geotechnical infrastructure. The project described in the proposal was significantly beyond the resources available/requested and success has been had in attracting the remaining funds. Moreover, in doing so, Dr Vardon has collaborated with other scientists within his department furthering his integration. In particular Dr Vardon and his colleagues won an STW (the national technology research council) grant of approximately €1.1m to investigate reliability-based geomechanical assessment tools (http://www.stw.nl/nl/content/reliability-based-geomechanical-assessment-tools-dykes-and- embankments-delta-areas-reliable). The scientific output yielded during the project includes 9 published international journal papers and 3 further submitted international journal papers. In addition, Dr Vardon took part in a European project on 'Impacts of climate change on Engineered Slopes for Infrastructure', co-chaired a mini-symposium on Soil-Atmosphere Interaction at the IACMAG international conference and is a co-editor of a special edition due to be published in late 2017 in Environmental Geotechnics.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
Geotechnical infrastructure is pervasive around the world as a method of forming topographical change for highway embankments/cuttings, flooding defences, retaining walls. In general, it provides a cost effective way of producing topographical features. However, the maintenance costs of such pervasive infrastructure is high, for example over €800m per year is required to be invested in the Netherlands. Geomaterials are a porous, granular material which interact with their surroundings, in particular via, water interactions, through drying via evaporation, or wetting from rain or water courses, which effect their stability.Climate change will produce more extreme weather events: more intense rainfall/storm events, longer cold/warm periods, along with more slowly increasing sea levels. Therefore, significantly differing loads are placed upon existing geotechnical structures, and their behaviour in response to these loads should be assessed.This proposal aims to investigate the impact of climatic change on geotechnical infrastructure. This will involve an investigation of the effects of more extreme weather due to climate change and how this will affect the stability and reliability of geotechnical structures. The work aims to develop robust understanding of the processes and produce numerical computation models that can be used in the assessment and design of existing and new geotechnical infrastructure.The objectives are:1) To investigate the likely loading scenarios and potential failure mechanisms on geotechnical structures from changing climate.2) To investigate the impact of climate change loading on geotechnical structures through the development of numerical tools, supported with centrifuge experiments.3) To assess the change in performance of geotechnical structures in a reliability based framework.4) To provide practical guidance to industry and influence future code development.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · DelftКоординаторНидерландия
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз