Cultural heritage sites all over the world are increasingly threatened by urbanisation and climate change. Entire historic cities are progressively damaged by sinking coastal land and subsidence at regional scale. Current mitigation measures have limited effect as they are based on local data for single monuments, making it impossible to recognise general relationships between climate change effects and structural degradation mechanisms. Due to very recent technical advances, satellite remote sensing, typically used for geophysical investigations of glaciers, earthquakes and volcanoes, has now the potential to provide information on structural deformations. In this project you will use finite element modelling of structures to develop quantitative relations between satellite-based indicators of heritage deformations and a local measure of structural degradation. The project will be conducted in close collaboration with research istitutions, industrial stakeholders and governamental organisations.
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