Assessment of heritage geostrutures vulnerability against climate change

无论是维多利亚时代的铁路设施还是莫特和贝利城堡，英国的土方工程都有着悠久的历史。这些地质结构中的许多是在任何标准、实践规范或甚至合适的压实设备可用之前很久建造的。因此，这些古老的地质构造在建造时基本上没有受到控制。随着气候模式变得更加不稳定（降雨量增加，洪水，大面积干旱），重要的是要了解气候变化如何影响这些地质结构的稳定性（开裂，进水，局部边坡破坏，冲刷）。本研究旨在开发一种非侵入性的方法来评估这些地质结构的当前和未来的性能。使用历史土方工程数据侵入性工程和非侵入性方法的结果（如georadar和地球物理调查），这些遗产将被建模，并在短期内评估其稳定性，并在未来的英国气候预测的基础上进行长期评估。该项目将侧重于评估可能因气候变化而面临失败风险的人造遗产地质结构。

Whether Victorian railway embankments or Motte and Bailey castles there is a long history of earthworks in the UK. Many of these geostructures were created constructed long before any standards, code of practice or even suitable compaction equipment were available. Thus these old geostrutures were largely uncontrolled at the time of construction. As climatic patterns become more erratic (increased rainfall, flooding, extensive drought), it is important to understand how changes in the climate these may affect the stability of such geostructures (onset of cracking, water ingress, local slope failure, washouts). This study aims to develop a non-invasive approach to evaluate the current and future performance of these geostructures. Using historical earthworks data intrusive works and the results from non-invasive methods (e.g. georadar and geophysical surveys), these heritage will be modelled and their stability assessed in the short term and in the long term based on future UK climate projections. The project will focus on the assessment of man-made heritage geostrutures that may be at risk of failure due to climate change.