Print Email Facebook Twitter Briefing: Lessons learned from failures of flood defences Title Briefing: Lessons learned from failures of flood defences Author Jonkman, S.N. Schweckendiek, T. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2015-07-01 Abstract Failure of flood defences during extreme events can lead to enormous damage and loss of life. This paper presents lessons learned from investigations of flood events over recent years, including the 2005 flooding in New Orleans, USA, caused by hurricane Katrina. Based on these findings, new developments in the field of research, design and engineering of flood defences are discussed, such as the introduction of risk-based approaches and better utilisation of failure data, field observations and monitoring. Such approaches are crucial to allow extrapolation for more extreme load conditions due to climate change, with anticipated sea level rise and increasing precipitation. Subject risk & probability analysisfloods & floodworksfailures To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6713a407-f221-4ab7-a38d-467ee3396814 Publisher ICE Publishing Embargo date 2016-07-01 ISSN 2043-9903 Source https://doi.org/10.1680/feng.15.00004 Source Proceedings of the ICE - Forensic Engineering, 168 (2), 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) ICE Publishing Files PDF 318880.pdf 951.06 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6713a407-f221-4ab7-a38d-467ee3396814/datastream/OBJ/view