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Water Engineering Reliability and Risk: A System Framework

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Engineering Reliability and Risk in Water Resources

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A general discrete system representation is used to model the reliability and other incident- or failure-related characteristics of both hydrologic structures and supply schemes. The system model is composed of five sets: (1) input set (controllable and noncontrollable), (2) state, (3) state transition function, (4) output, (5) output function. Emphasis is placed on the latter two sets which consist of performance indices PI and combinations of PI or figures of merit. Examples of PI are type of incident, level of service, quality of service, and cost. Examples of figures of merit are engineering reliability and risk. The framework is applied to a dual-objective reservoir control problem (flood protection versus water supply) in which reservoir operation rules are compared from a multiple criteria viewpoint. Alternative approaches for calculating the criteria based on surplus incidents, deficit incidents or any one of the two types of incidents are discussed.

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  1. Department of Systems & Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA

    Lucien Duckstein

  2. Institute for Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Karlsruhe, Kaiserstraße 12, 7500, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Erich J. Plate

  3. Institute for Water Resources Research, Via Reno 1, 00198, Rome, Italy

    Marcello Benedini

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  1. Department of System & Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, 85721, USA

    Lucien Duckstein

  2. Institute for Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Karlsruhe, Kaiserstrasse 12, 7500, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Erich J. Plate

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Duckstein, L., Plate, E.J., Benedini, M. (1987). Water Engineering Reliability and Risk: A System Framework. In: Duckstein, L., Plate, E.J. (eds) Engineering Reliability and Risk in Water Resources. NATO ASI Series, vol 124. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3577-8_1

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