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Engineering Reliability and Risk in Water Resources (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
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Engineering Reliability and Risk in Water Resources (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
Series: NATO Science Series E:, 124
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Hydraulic, hydrologic and water resources engineers have been
concerned for a long time about failure phenomena. One of the major
concerns is the definition of a failure event E, of its probability
of occurrence PtE), and of the complementary notion of reliability.
However, as the stochastic aspects of hydraulics and water
resources engineering were developed, words such as "failure,"
"reliability," and "risk" took on different meanings for different
specialists. For example, "risk" is defined in a Bayesian framework
as the expected loss resulting from a precisely defined failure
event, while according to the practice of stochastic hydraulics it
is the probability of occurrence of a failure event. The need to
standardize the various concepts and operational definitions
generated numerous exciting discussions between the co-editors of
this book during 1983-84 when L. Duckstein, under sponsorship of
the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (FRG), was working with E.
Plate at the Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources of the
University of Karlsruhe. After consulting with the Scientific
Affairs Division of NATO, an organizing committee was formed. This
comittee - J. Bernier (France), M. Benedini (Italy), S. Sorooshian
(U. S. A. ), and co-directors L. Duckstein (U. S. A. ) and E. J.
Plate (F. R. G. ) -- brought into being this NATO Advanced Study
Institute (ASI). Precisely stated, the purpose of this ASI was to
present a tutorial overview of existing work in the broad area of
reliability while also pointing out topics for further
development."
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