Multifunctional Flood Defences: Reliability Analysis of a Structure Inside the Dike

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Multifunctional use of the flood defences is as old as the flood defences themselves. Historically infrastructure, housing and livestock are located on the flood defences. Over the years, the cities along the rivers became bigger and bigger. With the still increasing demand for spatial development it is inevitable to also start combining other functions with the flood defences. The underground space of the flood defences is not yet used. Constructing a structure inside a dike is a solution to create more space. With multifunctional use of the flood defences are a lot of different parties involved with each its own interest and purposes. This results in a difficult and devious design process. The technical difficulties are researched in the master thesis in order to optimise this design process. The Dutch guidelines for flood defences as well as the Eurocodes are relevant for the design of multifunctional flood defences. Dealing with the hydraulic loads on the structure leads to uncerta

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