Reliability of Levee Systems Under Seismic Load

• Main Author: Hollenback, Justin Chow
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2013
• Subjects: Civil engineering; Earthquake Engineering; Levees; Reliability; Risk; Seismic Hazard; Loma; Morgan Hill; Rodriguez; Sherman Island
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/44s0f8s2; http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m5x97066

Currently there is no consistent, widely accepted procedure for discretizing levee systems subjected to seismic load for probabilistic analysis. Further, statistical independence of performance between levee sections is often assumed without verification. This stems from the difficulty in: quantifyi...