Print Email Facebook Twitter Calibration of piping assessment models in the Netherlands Title Calibration of piping assessment models in the Netherlands Author Lopez De La Cruz, J. Calle, E.O.F. Schweckendiek, T. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2011-06-02 Abstract New insights into the failure mechanism piping (under-seepage) regarding the physical process as well as reliability aspects have led to a revision of the Dutch design and safety assessment rules for dikes. This paper describes how the required factor of safety for piping is derived from a top level requirements formulated in terms of an acceptable probability of flooding. The main steps herein are (a) to account for the length-effect to translate requirements on dike ring (system) level to admissible probabilities of failure on dike section (element) level and (b) the calibration of safety factors as a function of the (element) target reliability. Subject code calibrationpiping, under-seepagetarget reliabilitylength-effects To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2f36b4aa-9b0f-4634-a7ad-e5f3a8a1ea7c Publisher Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau ISBN 978-3-939230-01-4 Source Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk, ISGSR 2011, Munich, Germany, 2-3 June 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2011 Bundesanstalt für WasserbauThe Author(s) Files PDF 274961.pdf 2.11 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2f36b4aa-9b0f-4634-a7ad-e5f3a8a1ea7c/datastream/OBJ/view