Abstract

During construction of a dike, slope stability typically reaches vital levels, thanks to the surplus pore water pressures within the foundation. The loading condition throughout construction is analogous with the planning conditions throughout flood loading. Not solely in terms of the pore water pressures because the main propulsion,however conjointly in terms of criticality of the steadiness. This paper examines however the knowledge of survival of the development stage will be wont to improve the dependableness estimate for dike swollen conditions, exploitation Bayesian change. The approach is exemplified for a variety of typical dikes and for a case study of an all-out check mound. the most result's that the dependableness will increase considerably by together with the knowledge of construction survival and therefore the uncertainty reduction concerned, particularly for dikes on soft soil blankets.For the investigated cases, the posterior failure chance was up to many orders of magnitude less than the previous failure chance. The most factors influencing the degree of dependableness update were the bottom conditions and therefore the degree of criticality of the slope stability throughout construction lastly, exploitation the knowledge of the survived construction ends up in improved reliability-based safety assessments of dikes, and consequently to additional targeted and efficient flood protection.