@article{OrcesiO'ConnorDiamantidisetal., author = {Orcesi, Andr{\´e} and O'Connor, Alan and Diamantidis, Dimitris and S{\´y}kora, Miroslav and Wu, Teng and Akiyama, Mitsuyoshi and Alhamid, Abdul Kadir and Schmidt, Franziska and Pregnolato, Maria and Li, Yue and Salarieh, Babak and Salman, Abdullahi M. and Bastidas-Arteaga, Emilio and Markogiannaki, Olga and Schoefs, Franck}, title = {Investigating the Effects of Climate Change on Structural Actions}, series = {Structural Engineering International}, volume = {32}, journal = {Structural Engineering International}, number = {4}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, doi = {10.1080/10168664.2022.2098894}, pages = {1 -- 14}, abstract = {The changing climate with resulting more extreme weather events will likely impact infrastructure assets and services. This phenomenon can present direct threats to the assets as well as significant indirect effects for those relying on the services those assets deliver. Such threats are path-dependent and place-specific, as they strongly depend on current and future climate variability, location, asset design life, function and condition. One key question is how climate change is likely to increase both the probability and magnitude of extreme weather events under different scenarios of climate change. To address this issue, this paper investigates selected effects of climate change and their consequences on structural performance, in the context of evolving loading scenarios in three different continental regions: Europe, North America, and Asia. The aim is to investigate some main place-specific changes of the exposure in terms of intensity/frequency of extreme events as well as the associated challenges, considering some recent activities of members of the IABSE TG6.1. Climate change can significantly affect built infrastructure and the society by increasing the occurrence and magnitude of extreme events and increasing potential losses. Therefore, specific relationships relating hazard levels and structural vulnerability to climate change effects should be determined.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{OrcesiBastidasArteagaMarkogiannakietal., author = {Orcesi, Andre and Bastidas-Arteaga, Emilio and Markogiannaki, Olga and Li, Yue and Schoefs, Franck and Ballester, Jorge and O'Connor, Alan and S{\´y}kora, Miroslav and Imam, Boulent and Pregnolato, Maria and Stewart, Mark and Ryan, Paraic and Diamantidis, Dimitris and Wu, Teng and Schmidt, Franziska and Kreislov{\´a}, Kateřina and Salman, Abdullahi M.}, title = {Investigating the effects of climate change on structural resistance and actions}, series = {IABSE Congress, Ghent 2021, Structural Engineering for Future Societal Needs: 22.02.2021 - 24.02.2021, Ghent, Belgium}, booktitle = {IABSE Congress, Ghent 2021, Structural Engineering for Future Societal Needs: 22.02.2021 - 24.02.2021, Ghent, Belgium}, publisher = {International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)}, address = {Z{\"u}rich}, doi = {10.2749/ghent.2021.0974}, pages = {974 -- 985}, abstract = {One major issue when considering the effects of climate change is to understand, qualify and quantify how natural hazards and the changing climate will likely impact infrastructure assets and services as it strongly depends on current and future climate variability, location, asset design life, function and condition. So far, there is no well-defined and agreed performance indicator that isolates the effects of climate change for structures. Rather, one can mention some key considerations on how climate change may produce changes of vulnerability due to physical and chemical actions affecting structural durability or changes of the exposure in terms of intensity/frequency of extreme events. This paper considers these two aspects and associated challenges, considering some recent activities of members of the IABSE TG6.1.}, language = {en} }