Print Email Facebook Twitter Probability and port engineering Title Probability and port engineering Author Verhagen, H.J. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2000-01-01 Abstract One of the major problems in the design of coastal structures is that the design has to be based on very uncertain input data. This implies that the degree of uncertainty is an important value for the designer. In traditional design the uncertainty is not really quantified, but an overall “safety factor” is included. The problem of this approach is that the value of the safety margin is not known at all. Therefore an approach in which the uncertainties are quantified has the advantage that one is able to determine how much money is used for being at the safe side, to determine the level of safety, but also it becomes clear what are the most uncertain elements in the design. A probabilistic design method allows quantifying these values Subject probabilistic analysisbreakwaters To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:83a7f5aa-ad95-4c4b-8b2f-f716ea269f2a Publisher Black Sea Coastal Association Source 2nd International Conference Port Development and Coastal Environment: PDCE 2000, 5-7 June 2000, Varna, Bulgaria Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2000 Verhagen, H.J. Files PDF Varna2000Proba.pdf 1.01 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:83a7f5aa-ad95-4c4b-8b2f-f716ea269f2a/datastream/OBJ/view