Reliability analysis of existing breakwaters

摘要

The relevant steps for reliability analysis are first described referring to a generic system and then applied to typical maritime structures. A picture of the existing codes that suggest target reliability level is supplied to compare reliability estimate with the target value. Reliability methods were applied o a typical rubble mound breakwater and to a typical vertical breakwater. The results have shown that reliability level of maritime structure is low if compared with the target values suggested by codes.