Damage risk assessment of breakwaters under tsunami attack

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5: Water Pollution

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 231-243

  Ergin, Ayşen ^a   Balas, Can Elmar ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breakwater; Damage; Reliability; Risk; Simulation; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BREAKWATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMAGE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TSUNAMI;

EURASIA; IZMIT; KOCAELI [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 33947324821     PISSN: 14336863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-006-0025-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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