Infrastructure Failure and Climate Change

Failure occurs when the environment exceeds the limits of a design. Reliability goes down as an environment changes from the one that was anticipated by the designer to one that is more extreme.

(2) CMU CEE on X: ““Melting roads and runways are no longer a hypothetical — and we know with increased emissions it’s only going to get hotter.” @CostaSamaras explains to @washingtonpost . #climatechange #infrastructure https://t.co/dnlRGfoZ1A” / X