One of the most rapidly emerging measures in infrastructure asset management is Structural
Health Monitoring (SHM), which aims at reducing uncertainty in structural performance by …

Civil engineering structures are commonly monitored to assess their structural behaviour,
using alarm thresholds to indicate when contingency actions are needed to improve safety …

Spatial variability and limited measurements often result in low reliability estimates of
geotechnical failure modes of dikes (ie, earthen flood defences). Required dike …

The historic canal walls of Amsterdam, stretching 200 km in total, are constructed as a
masonry wall on a timber deck supported by vertical timber piles. Understanding the …

During construction of a dike, slope stability often reaches critical levels, due to the excess
pore water pressures in the foundation. The loading condition during construction has …

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Many countries rely on flood defence systems to prevent economic damage and loss-of-life
due to catastrophic floods. Asset managers of flood defence systems need to cope with the …

One of the failure mechanisms of dikes is slope instability at the landward side. Often, one
instability does not lead to flooding, and several successive instabilities are needed before …

The time-dependent response of pore water pressures during floods largely determines the
safety against geotechnical failure of dikes, which is deemed to be highly dependent on the …

Since 2017 Dutch flood protection standards are defined as target flood probabilities that all
primary flood defences have to comply with by 2050. Explicitly accounting for uncertainties …