Safeguarding dams and levees from internal erosion failure

该项目旨在提高大坝和堤坝内部侵蚀破坏风险量化的可靠性和鲁棒性。现有的行业方法依赖于判断和经验。该项目采用一种创新的方法，整合了各种数据源，期望根据潜在的内部侵蚀机制客观地量化风险。预期成果包括转化新知识以更新当前的经验理解，开发直接评估风险的模型，以及获得故障概率的额外数据。这将减少评估风险时的主观性，提高行业对识别易受影响资产的信心，从而带来重大好处。

This project aims to improve the reliability and robustness of quantifying the risk of internal erosion failure in dams and levees. Existing industry approaches are reliant on judgement and experience. Using an innovative approach that integrates a variety of data sources, this project expects to objectively quantify risk based on the underlying internal erosion mechanisms. Expected outcomes include the translation of new knowledge to update current empirical understanding, the development of models to directly assess risk, and additional data to obtain the probability of failure. This should provide significant benefits by reducing subjectivity in assessing risk and improving industry confidence in identifying susceptible assets.