Deltares (based in the Netherlands) has developed this course for employees of national and regional agencies responsible for dike maintenance and dike safety. The course focuses on four items: the state-of-the-art view on failure mechanisms; emphasis is on understanding the mechanisms rather than their mathematical descriptions; new developments in the field of inspection techniques for daily maintenance and for high water conditions; the know-how and experiences in application of reliability tools for different areas in Europe; different cases including a thorough analysis of the occurred events will be studied (New Orleans, Czech Republic). The next session will be 24 May 2011. The course offers up to 19 PDHs.

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