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Title: Performance-Based Coastal Engineering Framework
The changing dynamics of coastal regions and climate pose severe challenges to coastal communities around the world. Effective planning of engineering projects and resilience strategies in coastal regions must not only address current conditions but also take into consideration the expected changes in the exposure and multi-hazard risk in these areas. However, existing performance-based engineering frameworks generally neglect time-varying factors and miss the opportunity to leverage related evidence as it becomes available. This paper proposes a Performance-Based Coastal Engineering (PBCE) framework that is flexible enough to accommodate uncertain time-varying factors, multi-hazard conditions, and cascading-effects. Furthermore, using a dynamic Bayesian network approach, the framework can incorporate observed evidence into the model to update the prior conditional distribution of the analyzed variables. As a proof of concept, two case studies—a typical elevated residential structure and a two-frame system—are presented, considering the effects of cascading failure, the incorporation of time-varying factors, and the influence of emerging evidence. Results show that neglecting cascading effects significantly underestimates the losses and that the incorporation of evidence reduces the uncertainty under the assumed distribution of evidence. The resulting PBCE framework can support data collection efforts, optimization of retrofitting strategies, integration of experts and community interests by facilitating interactions and knowledge sharing, as well as the identification of vulnerable regions and critical components in coastal multi-hazard regions.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2002522
NSF-PAR ID:
10281295
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Frontiers in Built Environment
Volume:
7
ISSN:
2297-3362
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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