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Extreme actions and climate change: Experience gained in South Africa and Germany

  • Since resistance against extreme environmental actions explicitly forms part of the basis of structural design, the implications of climate change emphatically needs to be considered. This paper presents the results of a survey of climate change developments in South Africa and Germany from the perspective of its rele-vance to extreme actions on infrastructure. It is concluded that the importance of climate change is broad and varied. However incorporation into practice is mostly nominal. Although general trends of climate change are confirmed, proper information on changes in extreme conditions is limited. Coastal engineering seems to be the field which is most active in providing for climate change. It is concluded that risk based methodologies developed to treat the variability and uncertainties of extreme actions and consequences in present practice provide a sound basis for treating the effects of climate change in a rational and optimal manner. It is also clear that there is strong motivation for extensive research as the best action to be taken presently, anticipating appropriate adjustment of reoptimized design methodologies.

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Author:Celeste Barnardo-Viljoen, Etienne van der Klashorst, Johan Verster Retief, Dimitris DiamantidisORCiDGND
Parent Title (English):Robust engineering solutions with environmental loading. The 11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR 2013), New York, USA
Publisher:Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Document Type:conference proceeding (article)
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2013
Release Date:2022/12/07
Andere Schriftenreihe:International journal of reliability and safety ; volume 8, nos. 2/3/4 (2014)
Institutes:Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen
research focus:Gebäude und Infrastruktur
Licence (German):Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG