Print Email Facebook Twitter Impacts of climate change on the principles of dike design Title Impacts of climate change on the principles of dike design Author Verhagen, H.J. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2007-01-01 Abstract Dike design is a very traditional craft. Since many generations dikes have been constructed in our part of Europe. After each disaster the dike was rebuilt, and improved. The improvement was always based on the experiences of the previous flood. For example, for many years the design height of a dike was determined as the height of the highest observed flood, plus a certain margin (usually a value in the order of 1 m). Of course, experience had shown that we also had to add some extra freeboard to take care of the wave run-up. Subject climate changedikesrevetments To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:22600f82-6b18-423a-87c2-2cc0f802aef5 Publisher Elastogran, Lemförde (BASF) ISBN 9783000218767 Source Elastocoast: elastomeric revetments, Holm Gröde, Germany Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2007 Verhagen, H.J. Files PDF ClimateChangeDikeDesign.pdf 405.33 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:22600f82-6b18-423a-87c2-2cc0f802aef5/datastream/OBJ/view