{"title":"Building Cities on the Sea","authors":"M. Abrams","doi":"10.1115/1.2020-apr2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n As sea level rise threatens cities across the globe, engineers are looking at relocating giant pieces of infrastructure to buoyant buildings, or very large floating structures. What had once seemed like an exercise in extreme engineering now has taken on an edge of desperate necessity. Can the challenges be overcome in time?","PeriodicalId":18406,"journal":{"name":"Mechanical Engineering","volume":"46 1","pages":"42-47"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mechanical Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2020-apr2","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
As sea level rise threatens cities across the globe, engineers are looking at relocating giant pieces of infrastructure to buoyant buildings, or very large floating structures. What had once seemed like an exercise in extreme engineering now has taken on an edge of desperate necessity. Can the challenges be overcome in time?