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Adaptation Strategies for Levees Under a Changing Climate
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: The evolving hazard of flooding is a major risk to the nation's economy, safety, and well-being. Within the U.S. over the past four decades, inland floods have caused 624 fatalities and about $164 billion in losses that ...
Can Protracted Drought Undermine the Structural Integrity of California’s Earthen Levees?
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Resilience of MSE Walls with Marginal Backfill under a Changing Climate: Quantitative Assessment for Extreme Precipitation Events
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Climate change is expected to alter statistics of extreme events in the future. Adapting geotechnical infrastructure to a changing climate necessitates quantitative assessment of the potential climate change impacts on the ...
Levee Fragility Behavior under Projected Future Flooding in a Warming Climate
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: Adaptation to climate change requires careful evaluation of infrastructure performance under future climatic extremes. This study demonstrates how a multidisciplinary approach integrating geotechnical engineering, hydrology, ...