Descrizione del progetto
Infrastrutture di trasporto obsolete diventano verdi
La manutenzione e l’aggiornamento delle infrastrutture di trasporto che stanno invecchiando richiedono soluzioni innovative, a bassa emissione di carbonio e sostenibili per soddisfare le esigenze future e l’evoluzione dei carichi ambientali derivanti dai cambiamenti climatici. Le opportunità derivano dai progressi nella comprensione e nello sfruttamento di nuovi e inesplorati processi basati sulla natura e sulle pratiche di ingegneria geotecnica. Per soddisfare le richieste dell’industria e le priorità dell’UE per soluzioni e una bioeconomia basate sulla natura a basse emissioni di carbonio, il progetto NOBILIS, finanziato dall’UE, esplorerà nuovi processi a base biologica in situ. La ferrovia britannica sarà usata come caso di studio per testare nuove tecniche e valutarle in termini di impatto ambientale e di costi dell’intero ciclo di vita.
Obiettivo
Current EU strategies, the climate action and the European Green Deal require infrastructure to be provided in an economical and environmentally responsible manner, reducing material use, embedded carbon and other impacts on the natural environment and ecosystems. Innovative, low-carbon, sustainable solutions will therefore be needed for the maintenance an upgrading of ageing transport infrastructure facilities to meet future needs and the changing environmental loads due to climate change. Opportunities for transformative processes arise from advances in understanding and harnessing nature-based processes. The use of such processes in geotechnical engineering practice is relatively new and underexplored. Before industrial adoption field applications of the techniques are required to prove their practical viability, long-term sustainability and whole life costs.
The aim of this research is thus to realise exciting new bio-based processes in situ as a viable, sustainable method of improving existing infrastructure earthworks. For this the UK railway network is used as a case study. The research comprises the development of exciting novel processes in the laboratory, their numerical modelling before upscaled application in the field, and a pilot field study application of the novel techniques on a railway embankment. Following this, the techniques will be evaluated in terms of environmental impact and whole life costs. This will lead to practical guidelines for industry, fostering the transfer of new technologies to engineering practice in order to address industry and EU priorities for low-carbon nature-based solutions and bio-economy.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinatore
SE10AA London
Regno Unito