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Viet, N.D. (author), Verhagen, H.J. (author), Van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author), Vrijling, J.K. (author)An appropriate assignment of probabilities of failure to subsystems and components in a structural system can bring a minimum of costs and risk. In this paper, a method for economic optimisation of rubble mound breakwaters using pre-assigned probabilities of failure is presented. Application to a design case shows that the proposed method is...conference paper 2008