Risk Assessment and Management for Interconnected and Interactive Critical Flood Defense Systems

• Main Author: Hamedifar, Hamed
• Other Authors: Pestana, Juan M, Bea, Robert G
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2012
• Subjects: Civil engineering; Environmental engineering; Critical Infrastructure; Flood Defense; Geotechnical Engineering; Reliability; Risk Assessment; Risk Management; Pacific; Sherman Island
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gm0285m

The current State-of-the-Practice relies heavily in the deterministic characterization and assessment of performance of civil engineering infrastructure. In particular, flood defense systems, such as levees, have been evaluated within the context of Factor of Safety where the capacity of the system...