Product Description: This work describes the key results of the European research project called PROVERBS to develop and implement probability-based methods for the design of monolithic coastal structures and breakwaters subject to sea wave attacks. The issues treated include the hydrodynamic, geotechnical and structural processes involved in the wave-structure-foundation interactions and in the associated failure mechanisms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The First Conference on Engineering Probability in Flood Defense was orga­ nized by the Department of Mathematics and Informatics of the Delft U niver­ sity of Technology and the Department of Industrial Engineering and Opera­ tions Research of the University of California at Berkeley, and was held on June 1,2 1995 in Delft...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)