Optimal maintenance decisions for dikes

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 101-121

  Speijker, Lennaert J P ^a   Van Noortwijk, Jan M ^b   Kok, Matthijs ^c   Cooke, Roger M ^b  

^a NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORY NLR   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c HKV CONSULTANTS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEA LEVEL; SOILS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COST OF MAINTENANCE; ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE; EXPONENTIALS; INITIAL COSTS; MAINTENANCE DECISIONS; MAINTENANCE MODELS; OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL RISE;

LEVEES;

EID: 0034385951     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269964800141087     Document Type: Article

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