Citation

Hariri-Ardebili MA. Int. J. Disaster Risk Reduct. 2018; 31: 806-831.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.07.024

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Dams are critical infra-structures whose their failure could leads to high economic and social consequences. For this reason, application of quantitative risk analysis has gained extensive attention in recent years. Dam safety management has become an indispensable part of all dam engineering projects worldwide. The concept of risk is heavily tied to probabilistic methods. From an engineering point of view, a clear definition of the terminologies involved in dam safety, and a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the current literature are the starting points towards an effective risk-based approach. The first part of this paper provides a systematic review on the fundamental elements in uncertainty quantification. Then, different terminologies in risk-based dam safety are explored and their inter-connections are discussed. More than 350 papers are summarized, and several tables and conceptual plots are used for extra clarification. Since no such a paper is ever published, hopefully this can unify all the future activities and improves our understanding from probabilistic risk analysis.

Language: en

Keywords

Dams; Failure; Fragility; Hazard; Probabilistic; Safety; Sustainability