Civil Infrastructure Confronting Weather Changes and Natural Hazards

The special collection on Civil Infrastructure Confronting Weather Changes and Natural Hazards is available in the ASCE Library (https://ascelibrary.org/jpcfev/confronting_weather_changes).

A changing climate has increased the frequency and intensity of natural hazards, resulting in increased infrastructure damages and adverse impacts. The durability of concrete, steel, and asphalt may be reduced by intense rain events, flooding, and extreme temperature and humidity fluctuations. Climate adaptation measures aim to reduce the vulnerability and increase the resiliency and sustainability of civil infrastructures to a changing weather and climate. This special collection of the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities (JPCF) is dedicated to evaluate the civil infrastructure confronting weather changes and natural hazards and provides a platform for sharing the latest results on the resiliency of civil infrastructures.

The resiliency of civil infrastructures is applicable to construction of buildings, roads, bridges, tunnels, foundations, concrete structures, and others, which are discussed prominently in this issue. Intrinsic compressibility of reconstructed clays, application of composite material reinforcement, karst development and its collapsing technique, concrete curing, grouting, slope stability analysis, and cost analysis are some of the important areas presented here. Other key research areas in this issue are foundation of structures including pile foundations and liquefaction of geotechnical material.