Climate Change Effects On Civil Infrastructure: Climate Demands

Climate change challenges are unlike any hazard that infrastructure and related shareholders have faced for millennia. These challenges, and the systems that are vulnerable to them, as well as the resulting consequences (social, economic, physical, natural, health, costs, etc.), are interrelated in countless ways and span regions, countries, oceans, and continents. The design, analysis, maintenance, operations, economics, and life cycle of civil infrastructure are dependent upon climatic effects, and this book addresses the intersections between climate change, infrastructures, and related decision paradigms, such as risk, resilience, preparedness, adaptation, or mitigation, from the viewpoint of climate change demands.

• Presents an objective categorization of climate change demands as related to civil infrastructure and society.
• Offers a comprehensive roadmap on how to plan for and address climate change effects on civil infrastructure.
• Includes numerous objective and practical case studies throughout to highlight important subjects.

Mohammed M. Ettouney, PhD, PE, MBA, FAEI, Dist MASCE, received an honors award from the National Institute of Building Sciences (2015) for developing an advanced materials database, owners performance methods, and co-developing school safety procedures. His developments of risk and resilience processes for projects related to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security earned him the Anachin Innovation Award (2013). He is a distinguished member in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) since 2011. He received his Doctor of Science in structural mechanics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1976. Since then, his interest in the field, both as a practitioner and a researcher, has been in multihazards safety of structures, progressive collapse of buildings, uncertainties in structural stability, blast mitigation of numerous buildings around the world, underwater acoustics, seismic analysis and design, structural health monitoring, risk and resilience management of civil infrastructures, and innovative concepts such as probabilistic boundary element method, scale-independent elements, and framework for evaluation of lunar-based structural concepts. Dr. Ettouney has authored or coauthored more than 400 publications and reports and contributed to and authored several books. He introduced several new practical and theoretical methods in the fields of earthquake engineering, acoustics, structural health monitoring, progressive collapse, blast engineering, and underwater vibrations. He co-invented the “seismic blast” slotted connection. More recently, he introduced the “economic theory of inspection,” “general and special theories of instrumentation,” coined the concept of “resilience management,” and numerous principles and techniques in the field of infrastructure health―all pioneering efforts that can help in developing durable infrastructures at reasonable costs.