Reliability Assessment of Breakwaters


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Reliability Assessment of Breakwaters


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Reliability Assessment of Breakwaters


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In this report, several level II reliability techniques are discussed and applied to breakwater design. Using these methods, the reliability and reliability index are determined for the dominant performance functions of a breakwater including stone and concrete armor stability, concrete armor structural response, runup, and overflopping. The methods include Taylor series finite difference (TSFD) methods, which are shown to be easily computed using a handheld calculator or spreadsheet. The TSFD method is shown to yield reasonable accuracy for preliminary comparison of various alternatives. An invariant iterative TSFD method and associated FORTRAN program are shown, which provide an improved approximation to the reliability for design and evaluation purposes.




APAC 2019


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This book presents selected articles from the International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts (APAC 2019), an event intended to promote academic and technical exchange on coastal related studies, including coastal engineering and coastal environmental problems, among Asian and Pacific countries/regions. APAC is jointly supported by the Chinese Ocean Engineering Society (COES), the Coastal Engineering Committee of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), and the Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers (KSCOE). APAC is jointly supported by the Chinese Ocean Engineering Society (COES), the Coastal Engineering Committee of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), and the Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers (KSCOE).




Risk and Reliability


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This book delineates the methods required by government agencies for river and sea defense design and flood defense system management and demonstrates how to evaluate uncertainty in the performance of flood and erosion defenses. It introduces the statistical concepts required for the implementation of a reliability analysis and describes the analytical and the numerical methods with worked examples. The author provides examples of applications of the methods to illustrate their advantages and limitations, and includes case studies drawn from his experience in academia and consulting.







Breakwaters, Coastal Structures and Coastlines


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These conference proceedings include 41 papers from the Seventh International Conference on Coastlines, Structures and Breakwaters organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers.




Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters 2023


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The ICE Coasts, Maritime Structures and Breakwaters conference series is the leading international forum for the presentation of the latest developments in coastal and maritime engineering. This book is provided as 2 individual volumes.




Safety, Reliability, Risk and Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructures


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Safety, Reliability, Risk and Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructures contains the plenary lectures and papers presented at the 11th International Conference on STRUCTURAL SAFETY AND RELIABILITY (ICOSSAR2013, New York, NY, USA, 16-20 June 2013), and covers major aspects of safety, reliability, risk and life-cycle performance of str




Probabilistic Design Tools for Vertical Breakwaters


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This work describes the key results of the European research project called PROVERBS to develop and implement probability-based methods for the design of monolithic coastal structures and breakwaters subject to sea wave attacks. The issues treated include the hydrodynamic, geotechnical and structural processes involved in the wave-structure-foundation interactions and in the associated failure mechanisms.