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Dec 31, 2015
Design Wave Height Related to Structure Lifetime
Authors: Zhou Liu and Hans F. BurcharthAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Coastal Engineering 1996
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The determination of the design wave height (often given as the significant wave height) is usually based on statistical analysis of long-term extreme wave height measurement or hindcast. The result of such extreme wave height analysis is often given as the design wave height corresponding to a chosen return period. Sometimes confidence band of the design wave height is also given in order to include various sources of uncertainties.
In this paper the First Order Reliability Method (FORM) is used to determine the design wave height corresponding to a certain exceedence probability within the structure lifetime. This includes the statistical vagrancy of nature, sample variability and the uncertainty due to measurement or hindcast error. Moreover, based on the discussion on the statistical vagrancy of nature, a formula for the calculation of encounter probability is presented.
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Coastal Engineering 1996
Pages: 2560 - 2572
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© 1997 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Dec 31, 2015
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Zhou Liu
Ph.D., Department of Civil Engineering, Aalborg University, Denmark
Hans F. Burcharth
Professor, dr.techn., Department of Civil Engineering, Aalborg University, Denmark
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