- Title
- Cost-effective design to address climate change impacts
- Creator
- Bastidas-Arteaga, Emilio; Stewart, Mark G.
- Relation
- Eco-Efficient Repair and Rehabilitation of Concrete Infrastructures p. 613-636
- Relation
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102181-1.00022-8
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Concrete is the predominant construction material for buildings, bridges, wharves, and other infrastructure worldwide. A potentially important factor for asset management is the possible influence of climate change. This may alter the environment to which infrastructure is exposed and, in turn may alter the factors known to affect the corrosion of reinforcing steel, including atmospheric CO2 concentration, temperature, humidity, ocean acidification, airborne pollutants, etc. This chapter poses the problem of adaptation of deteriorating RC structures. It describes a framework for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of adaptation measures, which accounts for deterioration models, probabilistic methods and cost-benefit analysis. The methodology is illustrated with an example focusing on cost-effective adaptation of existing RC structures placed in the coastal French cities of Saint-Nazaire and Marseille.
- Subject
- reinforced concrete; adaptation; cost-benefit analysis; corrosion; reliability; SDG 13; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1466276
- Identifier
- uon:47490
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780081021828
- Language
- eng
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