Engineering Reliability and Risk in Water Resources

✍ Scribed by Lucien Duckstein, Erich J. Plate, Marcello Benedini (auth.), Lucien Duckstein, Erich J. Plate (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Leaves: 585
Series: NATO ASI Series 124
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages N1-N1
Water Engineering Reliability and Risk: A System Framework....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Reliability and Risk in Structures....Pages 23-25
Reliability in Hydraulic Design....Pages 27-60
Engineering Risk in Regional Drought Studies....Pages 61-86
Incidents and Failures of Hydraulic Structures Subject to Independent Floods....Pages 87-94
Reliability of Hydraulic Structures Possessing Random Loading and Resistance....Pages 95-113
Probablistic Design of Water-Retaining Structures....Pages 115-134
Use of Risk-Based Analysis in Making Decisions on Dam Safety....Pages 135-146
A Comparison of Methods for Risk Assessment of Dams....Pages 147-173
Risk Analysis Considerations for Dam Safety....Pages 175-200
Consequences of the Failure of a Water Storage System....Pages 201-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Reliability and Risk in Water Supply Systems....Pages 231-232
Reliability of Water Supply Systems....Pages 233-248
Application of Models for Reliability Assessment in Reservoir Operation....Pages 249-271
The Return Period of a Reservoir System Failure....Pages 273-282
Reliability in Multipurpose Reservoir Operation: Case Studies with Correlated Inflows....Pages 283-305
Engineering Risk in Flood Studies Using Multivariate Partial Duration Series....Pages 307-332
Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater in a Problem of Environmental Protection: A Case in Salento Peninsula in Southern Italy....Pages 333-356
Front Matter....Pages 356-356
Reliability and Risk as Factors in Decision-Making....Pages 359-363
The Impact of Catchment Modeling on Hydrologic Reliability....Pages 365-389
Front Matter....Pages 356-356
Empirical and Causal Models in Hydrologic Reliability Analysis....Pages 391-403
Elements of Bayesian Analysis of Uncertainty in Hydrological Reliability and Risk Models....Pages 405-422
Reliability Estimation of Underground Water Control Systems under Natural and Sample Uncertainty....Pages 423-441
Target-Related Reliability in Surface Water System Operation....Pages 443-463
Bayesian Analysis: Further Advances and Applications....Pages 465-484
Risk Aspects in the Determination of Optimal Cropping Patterns....Pages 485-498
Reliability Aspects of Multicriterion Watershed Management....Pages 499-520
A Min-Max Operating Rule for the Management of a Multipurpose Reservoir....Pages 521-553
Formal Incorporation of Risk into Conflict Analysis....Pages 555-582
Back Matter....Pages 583-588

✦ Subjects

Civil Engineering;Environmental Management;Hydrogeology

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