Asset-management strategies for infrastructure embankments

Glendinning, S. G.; Manning, Lucy

doi:10.1680/ensu.2009.162.2.111

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“…This can gradually lead to the large deformation and squeezing near the subgrade surface [40,41]. Another important type of subgrade failure is subgrade attrition with mud pumping.…”

Section: Track Subgrade Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

State-of-the-Art Review of Railway Track Resilience Monitoring

2018

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Abstract:In recent years, railway systems have played a significant role in transportation systems due to the demand increase in conveying both cargo and passengers. Due to the harsh environments and severe loading conditions, caused by the traffic growth, heavier axles and vehicles and increase in speed, railway tracks are at risk of degradation and failure. Condition monitoring has been widely used to support the health assessment of civil engineering structures and infrastructures. In this context, it was adopted as a powerful tool for an objective assessment of the railway track behaviour by enabling real-time data collection, inspection and detection of structural degradation. According to relevant literature, a number of sensors can be used to monitor track behaviour during the train passing under harsh environments. This paper presents a review of sensors used for structural monitoring of railway track infrastructure, as well as their application to sense the performance of different track components during extreme events. The insight into track monitoring for railways serving traffic with extreme features will not only improve the track inspection and damage detection but also enable a predictive track maintenance regime in order to assist the decision-making process towards more cost-effective management in the railway industry.

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“…This can gradually lead to the large deformation and squeezing near the subgrade surface [40,41]. Another important type of subgrade failure is subgrade attrition with mud pumping.…”

Section: Track Subgrade Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2018

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“…Prolonged/more intense precipitation can increase soil moisture levels within earth embankments, leading to reduced soil suction (on which the stability of many over steepened embankments rely), increasing pore pressures and increasing the likelihood of mass instability (Glendinning et al, 2009). …”

Section: Increased Persistencementioning

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Climate impacts on flood and coastal erosion infrastructure

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Walsh²,

Dawson³

2015

Infrastructure Asset Management

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“…This topic addresses all three pillars of sustainability by focussing on two directly and the third by implication and impact, an accusation that might be levelled at the civil engineering profession as a whole. The final paper by Glendinning et al 7 returns to the oft-stated aim of this journal in delivering the 'how to' of sustainability; in this case asset management strategies. Taken as a whole, this special issue attempts to tell a story of how best to go about tackling one of the foremost problems facing the civil engineering profession, climate change, by a logical and integrated programme of research on one aspect of the transport infrastructure.…”

Section: Biological and Engineering Impacts Of Climate Change On Slopmentioning

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Rogers

Glendinning

2009

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering

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Climate change is projected to have a significant impact upon buildings, infrastructure and utilities. Therefore, effective sustainable development must accommodate these impacts as well as attempting to reduce the causes of further climate change. The UK climate impacts programme (UKCIP) is ideally placed to assist in this process, UKCIP's aims being to improve knowledge and understanding of the impacts of climate change among stakeholders and to help stakeholders to be better equipped to undertake adaptation to climate change. UKCIP provides guidance and resources, including making available climate information (see below) that supports stakeholder efforts to assess vulnerabilities, impacts, risks and adaptation options.This issue of Engineering Sustainability is a special issue devoted to the outcomes of the UK biological and engineering impacts of climate change on slopes (Bionics) programme, one of the core projects of a government-funded initiative entitled Building knowledge for a changing climate (BKCC). The initiative was a collaboration between the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and UKCIP, and concerns research into the impacts of climate change on the built environment, transport and utilities. The suite of integrated research projects covered areas ranging from risk management to the impact of climate change on energy supplies, land use and historic buildings, their stated aims and objectives being listed below. Since this is an editorial, as opposed to a review article, it is considered most important to list what each consortium is, or rather was, about and allow readers to follow up on the specific outcomes. The UKCIP's role was to support the suite of projects including by making available scenarios that show how the climate might change and coordinating research on dealing with these future alternative climate predictions. Although the work under BKCC is now complete, the initiative was continued via Sustaining knowledge for a changing climate (SKCC) and now Adaptation and resilience to a changing climate (ARCC) within the context of the 'living with environment change' programme. SKCC was likewise funded by EPSRC and supported by UKCIP, and sought to preserve and extend the community of end users and researchers assembled through BKCC. In addition, SKCC has been instrumental in synthesising and disseminating the results from BKCC with the aim of maximising their impact on the end user and research community. This has been done via publication of the BKCC results, the holding of a workshop during which the results were presented and discussed, and offering visits to sites where adaptation solutions have been undertaken. Such activity complements well the formal publication of research results provided by this themed issue of Engineering Sustainability as these research programmes seek to make the impact necessary if we are to bring about a change in the way we operate. ARCC is the current focus of the EPSRC-UKCIP collaboration within the built environment, including r...

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Asset-management strategies for infrastructure embankments

Cited by 34 publications

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