Quantitative fault tree analysis for urban water infrastructure flooding

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 809-821

  ten Veldhuis, Johanna A E ^a   Clemens, François H L R ^a   van Gelder, Pieter H A J M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fault tree; Flooding; Risk; Urban drainage

Indexed keywords

CALL CENTRES; COMPONENT FAILURES; FAILURE MECHANISM; FAULT-TREES; HEAVY RAINFALL; HUMAN ERRORS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; IN-BUILDINGS; PUBLIC AREAS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; RAINFALL DATA; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; URBAN AREAS; URBAN DRAINAGE; URBAN FLOODING; URBAN FLOODS; URBAN WATERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; HEAVY WATER; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROBABILITY; RAIN; RISK MANAGEMENT; TREES (MATHEMATICS); URBAN PLANNING; WATER SUPPLY;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960681212     PISSN: 15732479     EISSN: 17448980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732470902985876     Document Type: Article

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