The Segment barrier: A case study on the applicability of new conceptual designs for a storm surge barrier at Long Island Sound, USA

The Segment barrier is a conceptual design for a storm surge barrier consisting of individual concrete segments which can be combined to form a barrier. The structure is designed with the ability to expand in size to deal with the uncertainties of global mean sea level rise by stacking the individual segments into various configurations. At its...

Assessment of a storm surge barrier: A probabilistic fragility-based framework for the assessment of complex hydraulic structures

This thesis introduces a fragility-based framework in order to perform a custom assessment of the complex Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier. By applying a conditional approach to loading parameters, the statistical dependency between failure mechanisms and structure elements can be described separately for the strength and loading part of the...