Extreme Waves in the North Sea: Deriving extreme wave conditions applying Hierarchical Clustering and Non-Stationary Extreme Value Modelling

Coastal and offshore infrastructure must be designed to withstand extreme wave-induced loading conditions. Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) is often employed to infer probabilistic distributions that provide information about extreme design conditions. In traditional practices, EVA is performed under the assumption of stationarity. This means that...

Design Study on the Feasibility of a Self-closing Flood Barrier: A Case Study of the City of Arcen, Limburg

Flood risks and its consequences become more and more challenging and are demanding for the currently present dike systems and hydraulic structures in the Netherlands. This automatically raises the question for the possibility of adjustable temporary deployable flood defences that work autonomously. Nowadays it is more likely that a standard...