Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Engineering and Design
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Engineering and Design - Risk-Based Analysis for Flood Damage Reduction Studies
Author: U. S. Army Corps of EngineersPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781329661646
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Risk involves exposure to a chance of injury or loss. The fact that risk inherently involves chance leads directly to a need to describe and to deal with uncertainty. Corps policy has long been (1) to acknowledge risk and the uncertainty in predicting floods and flood impacts, and (2) to plan accordingly. Historically, that planning relied on analysis of the expected long-term performance of flood-damage-reduction measures, on application of safety factors and freeboard, on designing for worst-case scenarios, and on other indirect solutions to compensate for uncertainty. These indirect approaches were necessary because of the lack of technical knowledge of the complex interaction of uncertainties in predicting hydrologic, hydraulic, and economic functions and because of the complexities of the mathematics required to do otherwise.
Risk Analysis and Uncertainty in Flood Damage Reduction Studies
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309071364
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Reducing flood damage is a complex task that requires multidisciplinary understanding of the earth sciences and civil engineering. In addressing this task the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employs its expertise in hydrology, hydraulics, and geotechnical and structural engineering. Dams, levees, and other river-training works must be sized to local conditions; geotechnical theories and applications help ensure that structures will safely withstand potential hydraulic and seismic forces; and economic considerations must be balanced to ensure that reductions in flood damages are proportionate with project costs and associated impacts on social, economic, and environmental values. A new National Research Council report, Risk Analysis and Uncertainty in Flood Damage Reduction Studies, reviews the Corps of Engineers' risk-based techniques in its flood damage reduction studies and makes recommendations for improving these techniques. Areas in which the Corps has made good progress are noted, and several steps that could improve the Corps' risk-based techniques in engineering and economics applications for flood damage reduction are identified. The report also includes recommendations for improving the federal levee certification program, for broadening the scope of flood damage reduction planning, and for improving communication of risk-based concepts.
Risk-Based Analysis for Flood Damage Reduction Studies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781423572626
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
This manual describes and provides procedures for risk and uncertainty for Corps of Engineers flood damage reduction studies.
Workshop on Risk-based Analysis for Flood Damage Reduction Studies, 18-21 October 1994, Omaha, Nebraska
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Category : Flood damage prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Risk-Based Analysis for Flood Damage Reduction Studies
Author: Robert H. GreenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788178771
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Describes & provides procedures for risk & uncertainty for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) flood damage reduction studies. The guidance presented & procedures described in this manual apply to all ACE elements, major subordinate commands, labs, & field operating activities having civil works responsibilities. The procedures described herein lead to estimation of expected benefits of proposed flood damage reduction plans using risk & uncertainty analysis. Quantitative & qualitative methods of representing the likelihood & consequences of exceedance of the capacity of selected measures are also included. Illustrated.
Hydrologic Engineering Requirements for Flood Damage Reduction Studies
Author: Risk-based Analysis for Corps Flood Project Studies
Author: Earl E. EikerPublisher:
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Category : Environmental risk assessment
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
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