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Dam Break Modelling, Risk Assessment and Uncertainty Analysis for Flood Mitigation - Softcover

Zagonjolli, Migena

 
9780415455947: Dam Break Modelling, Risk Assessment and Uncertainty Analysis for Flood Mitigation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415455944 ISBN 13: 9780415455947
Publisher: CRC Press, 2007

Synopsis

More than 800,000 dams and thousands of kilometers of dikes have been constructed around the world. These structures are often designed based on a statistical analysis of the discharge distribution in rivers. However, the history of construction of dams and dikes coexists with the history of failures. Hundreds of dam failure events were reported worldwide in the previous century, while every year dikes breach due to high flows in the rivers or for other reasons leading sometimes to catastrophic consequences.

In this book a description is presented of a framework and techniques for modelling structure failure events as well as a proposal to several novel approaches for risk analysis and assessment by numerical, statistical and constrained based methods in particular to the problems of breach modelling and flood water mitigation.

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Migena Zagonjolli

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Publisher
CRC Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415455944
ISBN 13 
9780415455947
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
142