The Quay Walls of Amsterdam, Netherlands: An Approach for Collapse Risk Mitigation at the Municipal Scale Based on Multisource Monitoring and Surveying Data
Technical Paper
This paper presents a multiscale methodology for collapse risk mitigation of Amsterdam's 600 km of historic, aging quay walls, many of which are over 100 years old. Due to a lack of as-built information and limited assessment guidelines, predicting the end-of-life for these retaining structures is a major challenge.
Learn how a three-phase multiscale methodology prioritizes the most exposed historic quay walls in Amsterdam for urgent risk mitigation.
Understand how Multi-temporal Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (MT-InSAR) data is combined with conventional in-situ surveys to monitor displacements of retaining structures.
Discover the empirical relationships established between visual damage/movement indicators (like tilting) and quantitative displacement descriptors from terrestrial monitoring data.
See how the methodology uses wall crack patterns and displacement data to identify the most probable collapse mechanism affecting each structural block.
Grasp that integrating multi-source data is fundamental for setting up sustainable risk mitigation strategies and forecasting the end-of-life of aging municipal infrastructure.