Accounting for Climate Change Uncertainty in Long-Term Dam Risk Management

Article published in “Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 2021”

Authors: Javier Fluixá-Sanmartín (CREALP); Adrián Morales-Torres (iPresas Risk Analysis); Ignacio Escuder-Bueno (UPV) y Jesica Tamara Castillo-Rodríguez (UPV).

Reference: Javier Fluixá-Sanmartín; Adrián Morales-Torres; Ignacio Escuder-Bueno y Jesica Tamara Castillo-Rodríguez: Accounting for Climate Change Uncertainty in Long-Term Dam Risk Management. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001355. 2021.

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Comprehensive decision-making approach for managing time dependent dam risks

Article published in “Reliability Engineering and System Safety 191, 2019”

Authors: Javier Fluixá-Sanmartín (CREALP); Adrián Morales-Torres (iPresas Risk Analysis); Ignacio Escuder-Bueno (UPV) y Jesica Tamara Castillo-Rodríguez (UPV).

Reference: Javier Fluixá-Sanmartín; Adrián Morales-Torres; Ignacio Escuder-Bueno y Jesica Tamara Castillo-Rodríguez: Comprehensive decision-making approach for managing time dependent dam risks. DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2020.107100. 2020.

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Quantification of climate change impact on dam failure risk under hydrological scenarios: a case study from a Spanish dam

Article published in “Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 19, 2019″

Authors: Javier Fluixá-Sanmartín (CREALP); Adrián Morales-Torres (iPresas Risk Analysis) e Ignacio Escuder-Bueno (UPV) y Javier Paredes-Arquiola (UPV).

Reference: Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., Morales-Torres, A., Escuder-Bueno, I., y Paredes-Arquiola, J .: Cuantificación del impacto del cambio climático en el riesgo de rotura de presas en escenarios hidrológicos: un estudio de caso de una presa española, Nat. Peligros Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 2117–2139. Doi: 10.5194/nhess-19-2117-2019, 2019.

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Empirical Tool for the Assessment of Annual Overtopping Probabilities of Dams

Article published in “Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 2019”

Authors: Javier Fluixá-Sanmartín (CREALP); Luis Altarejos-García (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena); Adrián Morales-Torres (iPresas Risk Analysis) e Ignacio Escuder-Bueno (UPV).

Referencia: Javier Fluixá-Sanmartín; Luis Altarejos-García; Adrián Morales-Torres e Ignacio Escuder-Bueno: Empirical Tool for the Assessment of Annual Overtopping Probabilities of Dams. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001017, 2019.

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Dealing with epistemic uncertainty in risk-informed decision making for dam safety management

The article with title “Dealing with epistemic uncertainty in risk-informed decision making for dam safety management”

Reference: Adrián Morales-Torres; Ignacio Escuder-Bueno; Armando Serrano-Lombillo; Jesica Tamara Castillo-Rodríguez: Dealing with epistemic uncertainty in risk-informed decision making for dam safety management, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2019.106562

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Empirical Tool for the Assessment of Annual Overtopping Probabilities of Dams

The research paper “Empirical Tool for the Assessment of Annual Overtopping Probabilities of Dams” was published in the journal “American Society of Civil Engineers” in October 2018.

Reference: Javier Fluixá-Sanmartín; Luis Altarejos-García; Adrián Morales-Torres;and Ignacio Escuder-Bueno: Empirical Tool for the Assessment of Annual Overtopping Probabilities of Dams, American Society of Civil Engineers, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001017, 2018.

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Review article: Climate change impacts on dam safety

The review paper “Climate change impacts on dam safety” was published in the journal “Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences” in September 2018.

Reference: Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., Altarejos-García, L., Morales-Torres, A., and Escuder-Bueno, I.: Review article: Climate change impacts on dam safety, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 2471-2488, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2471-2018, 2018.

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A combined risk analysis approach for complex dam–levee systems

The article with title “A combined risk analysis approach for complex dam–levee systems”, has been published in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering on April 2017.

Reference: Jessica Tamara Castillo-Rodríguez, Jason T. Needham, Adrián Morales-Torres & Ignacio Escuder-Bueno (2017): A combined risk analysis approach for complex dam–levee systems, Structure and Infrastructure Engineering.
DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2017.1314514

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Overcoming failure in infrastructure risk governance implementation: large dams journey

The research paper with title “Overcoming failure in infrastructure risk governance implementation: large dams journey” has been published in the Journal of Risk Research on August 9, 2016.

Reference: Journal of Risk Research (2016): Overcoming failure in infrastructure risk governance implementation: large dams journey, Journal of Risk Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2016.1215345

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Enhancing local action planning through quantitative flood risk analysis: a case study in Spain

The research paper with title “Enhancing local action planning through quantitative flood risk analysis: a case study in Spain” has been published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences on July 29, 2016.

Reference: Castillo-Rodríguez, J. T., Escuder-Bueno, I., Perales-Momparler, S., and Porta-Sancho, J. R.: Enhancing local action planning through quantitative flood risk analysis: a case study in Spain, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 1699-1718, doi:10.5194/nhess-16-1699-2016, 2016

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Building fragility curves of sliding failure of concrete gravity dams integrating natural and epistemic uncertainties

The research paper with title “Building fragility curves of sliding failure of concrete gravity dams integrating natural and epistemic uncertainties” has been published in the journal “Engineering Structures” in July 2016.

Reference: Adrián Morales-Torres, Ignacio Escuder-Bueno, Luis Altarejos-García, Armando Serrano-Lombillo, Building fragility curves of sliding failure of concrete gravity dams integrating natural and epistemic uncertainties, Engineering Structures, Volume 125, 15 October 2016, Pages 227-235, ISSN 0141-0296, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2016.07.006.

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The suitability of risk reduction indicators to inform dam safety management

The research paper “The suitability of risk reduction indicators to inform dam safety management” was published in the journal “Structure and Infrastructure Engineering” in February 2016.

Reference: Adrián Morales-Torres, Armando Serrano-Lombillo, Ignacio Escuder-Bueno & Luis Altarejos-García (2016): The suitability of risk reduction indicators to inform dam safety management, Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2015.1136830.

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Advances on the Failure Analysis of the Dam—Foundation Interface of Concrete Dams

The journal paper “Advances on the Failure Analysis of the Dam—Foundation Interface of Concrete Dams” has already been published (2 Dec 2015).

This article belongs to the Special Issue Failure Analysis in Materials.

Reference: “Advances on the Failure Analysis of the Dam—Foundation Interface of Concrete Dams”; Altarejos-García, Luis; Escuder-Bueno, Ignacio, and Morales-Torres, Adrián; Materials 2015, 8, 8255–8278; doi:10.3390/ma8125442

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The value of integrating information from multiple hazards for flood risk analysis and management

The research paper “The value of integrating information from multiple hazards for flood risk analysis and management” was published in the journal “Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences” in Feb 2014.

Reference: “Castillo-Rodríguez, J. T., Escuder-Bueno, I., Altarejos-García, L., and Serrano-Lombillo, A.: The value of integrating information from multiple hazards for flood risk analysis and management, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 379-400, doi:10.5194/nhess-14-379-2014, 2014.”

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