Risk analysis of dams

• Research unit: FOEN (BWG)
• Project number: sta022-1997

Key words (English)

Dams
Risk analysis
Safety
Overtopping

Short description (English)

The objective of the work is to relate the mostly deterministic safety concepts that prevail in current dam engineering in Switzerland to risk assessment. The aspect of uncontrolled overtopping is introduced to illustrate the practical potentials of risk analyses.

Project aims (English)

Assessment of the applicability of risk analyses methodology to dam engineering.

Abstract (English)

Transfer and application (English)

Publications / Results (English)

- Probabilistic assessment of current requirements on uncontrolled overtopping of dams during floods, G.R. Darbre, Federal Office for Water Management, Dam Safety, P.O.Box 957, CH-2501 Bienne, Nov. 1998