Shuoyun Zhang

Research

Risk-based Management for Civil Infrastructure under Climate Change

Emerging evidences of the global climate change in the last decades have called for actions to reduce negative impact of the climate change at different levels of society proactively and reactively. As the first defense of the society to the external environment, civil infrastructure plays the crucial role to safeguard people and other assets. Correspondingly, societal decision makers responsible for the management of civil infrastructure are requested to identify appropriate decisions for the adaptation to the climate change in civil engineering; decisions that are robust to large uncertainties associated with the projection of the future climate under the climate change. The aim of the present project is to establish a decision framework for the adaptation of civil infrastructure to the emerging climate change with due consideration of large uncertainties evolving over time. Special focus is given on a generic format of consequence models/framework that facilitate the assessment of the consequence of the variety of decision alternatives – not only due to different type and degree of the actions but also the difference in the timing of the actions.

Conference Presentations

• Zhang S., Nishijima K., Maes M.A and Faber M.H., (2010), Object-oriented Bayesian networks for stochastic finite elements, 15th IFIP WG7.5 Working Conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, Munich, April.
• Zhang S., Nishijima K., Faber M. H. (2010), Decision graphical formulation for climatic change adaptation of civil infrastructure, 5th IFED, Stoos, Switzerland, 7-11 December, 2010.
• Zhang S., Nishijima K. (2012), Statistics-based investigation on typhoon transition modeling, Seventh International Colloquium on Bluff Body Aerodynamics & Applications, September 2-6, 2012 Shanghai, China.