Reliability of levee systems

Reliability-Based Design in Geotechnical Engineering: Computations and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 448-496

  Wolff, Thomas F ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85075678117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781482265811-17     Document Type: Chapter

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