Preliminary reliability analysis of flood defences in the pilot site ‚German Bight Coast’

This report describes the flood defence structures of the pilot site ‘German Bight Coast’ and the overall probability of failure of all flood defences in the area. First, the flood prone area is briefly described as follows: ? the flood prone area ? the failures observed in the past ? an overview of all defence structures ? the flood defence...

Sea dike breach initiation and development

Description of the performance of the large-scale experiments in the GWK in Hannover in 2008

An assessment of methodologies to evaluate flood losses and impacts

The objective of this Masters thesis report is to review and analyse the current published and unpublished knowledge on the methods to valuate the intangible losses associated with both environmental and social/health impacts of coastal and estuarial floods, including the techniques for Cost- Benefit-Analysis, Multi-Criteria-Analysis, and Life...

Breaching of coastal dikes: State of the art

Coastal dikes are used as defence structures against flooding in lowland areas and where high tidal ranges occur. The development of a breach induced by wave overtopping has been one of the most frequent causes of dike failure and it is closely related both to the dynamics of a protected coast and to the flood risk assessment and management. At...