Reliability of Bank Protection Works Subject to Erosion

by Wolfgang Kron, Univ of Karlsruhe, Germany,
J?rgen Ihringer, Univ of Karlsruhe, Germany,
Erich Plate, Univ of Karlsruhe, Germany,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Sediment Transport Modeling

Abstract:

Sediment movement and changes of bed levels in natural rivers are non-stationary processes. The design of protection works for structures against erosion should account for the time dependency as well as for the stochasticity of variables and the uncertainty of the models used to compute the erosion. Reliability theory allows to estimate failure probabilities and may help in certain cases to design hydraulic structures by stochastic simulation rather than by highly sophisticated models.

Subject Headings: River bank stabilization | Stochastic processes | Failure analysis | Erosion | Structural reliability | Structural analysis | Mathematical models

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