Flood hazards in urban environment

L Gao, L Zhang, Y Hong, HX Chen… - Georisk: Assessment and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Apart from the estimation of magnitudes of precipitation, floods and storm surges, modelling
of storm water flows in a densely populated urban area is required for designing coping …

Geometric and material variability of the probability of landward slope failure for homogeneous river levees

N Schwiersch, J Stamm - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Holistic flood risk management (FRM) aims at minimizing the flood risk (FR) for an entire
river basin. To this end, the probability of flooding and its consequences must also be taken …

A new Bayesian network model for the risk assessment of water inrush in karst tunnels

Y Wang, Y Liu, Z Li, W Jiang - Geofluids, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Water inrush seriously restricts the safe construction of a karst tunnel. Once it occurs, it will
cause serious consequences such as economic loss and casualties. Due to the complexity …

Reliability updating for lateral failure of historic quay walls

MJ Hemel, DJ Peters, T Schweckendiek… - … and Management of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

The influence of deviating conditions on levee failure rates

JJ Kool, W Kanning, SN Jonkman - Journal of Flood Risk …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study introduces a method for assessing the annual failure rate of levees based on
information from historical floods, while also considering the return period of these past …

[HTML][HTML] Testing the causes of a levee failure using Bayesian networks

W García-Feria, J Colmenares-Montañez… - Ingeniería, 2022 - scielo.org.co
Context: Forensic geotechnical engineering aims to determine the most likely causes
leading to geotechnical failures. Standard practice tests a set of credible hypotheses against …

Testing the Causes of a Levee Failure Using Bayesian Networks

WMG Feria, JEC Montañez, GJH Perez - Ingeniería, 2022 - dialnet.unirioja.es
Context: Forensic geotechnical engineering aims to determine the most likely causes
leading to geotechnical failures. Standard practice tests a set of credible hypotheses against …

Risk analysis and mitigation in geotechnical engineering–Lessons learned from the collapse of the historical archive in Cologne due to underground construction

C Moormann, MJP Effenberger - … Engineering Challenges to Meet …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
In the field of geotechnical engineering, risks that materialise can have a significant impact
on the serviceability and stability of a geotechnical structure, as well as its construction …

[PDF][PDF] Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society

N Guerra, MM Fernandes, C Ferreira, AG Correia… - 2024 - researchgate.net
The prediction of local (ie, site-specific) undrained shear strength from soil properties (eg,
water content, Plasticity index, Liquid Limit) is a cost-effective solution to preliminary assess …

Ein risikobasierter Planungsansatz für homogene Flussdeichquerschnitte

N Schwiersch - 2023 - tud.qucosa.de
Abstract (DE) Die Erfassung des bestehenden Hochwasserrisikos (HWR) und dessen
Steuerung durch Maßnahmen des Hochwasserrisikomanagements (HWRM) stehen seit …