Water conservancy projects play extremely important roles in flood control, power generation, irrigation, water supply and shipping, and in promoting social and economic development and reducing carbon emissions. The construction, operation and decommissioning of water conservancy projects all have huge impacts on society and the environment. In addition, due to the natural and human factors, such as super standard flood, natural aging, earthquake and improper management caused by extreme meteorological conditions, water conservancy projects are always faced with the risk of failure. The effective quantification of the water conservancy project risks and proposing corresponding management and control measures have always been a concern of researchers.
Experiments, theories and numerical methodologies are essential for quantitative characterization of water conservancy project risks. This Research Topic accepts contributions regarding novel methodologies and applications to characterize the water conservancy project risk levels aiming at targeted management and control measures. These fields can promote the cross and integration of different subjects, which can be helpful for improving the development of risk assessment methods. We expect to solve the pivotal problems in the basic aspects of fundamental theories and methods and common prospective technologies from different areas. We encourage the submission of manuscripts covering different topics, from pure and fundamental research to more applied demonstrations and integrated case studies.
The scope of the Research Topic is mainly devoted, but not limited to:
• Resettlement risk of water conservancy projects:
Analysis of the impacts of water conservancy project construction on migrants’ life. Quantitative methods and management measures for resettlement risks to ensure the life and development of migrants.
• Meteorological disasters and flood risks:
Features and mechanisms for compound meteorological and flooding disasters. New statistical model to investigate characteristics of floods and flood-related disasters, and to simulate and predict flood risks. Combining machine learning methods and physical models to improve the simulation and prediction skills of physical models.
• Structural safety of hydraulic engineering:
Analysis of influencing factors on hydraulic structure safety. New calculation models and methods, especially the couple of mechanics, mathematics and modern computing methods, for quantifying failure probability of hydraulic structures.
• Consequences of water conservancy project failures:
Analysis of the factors and mechanisms affecting the consequences of water conservancy project failures. Quantitative calculation methods and management measures for the failure consequences of water conservancy projects.
• Criteria and methods for risk assessment of water conservancy projects:
Assessment criteria that comprehensively consider both hydraulic structural safety and failure consequences. The linkage mechanism between risk assessment criteria and traditional safety assessment standards.
• Risk management and decommissioning decision of water conservancy projects:
Comprehensive risk management methods considering both improving structural safety and reducing potential failure consequences. Decision of decommissioning of water conservancy projects.
Water conservancy projects play extremely important roles in flood control, power generation, irrigation, water supply and shipping, and in promoting social and economic development and reducing carbon emissions. The construction, operation and decommissioning of water conservancy projects all have huge impacts on society and the environment. In addition, due to the natural and human factors, such as super standard flood, natural aging, earthquake and improper management caused by extreme meteorological conditions, water conservancy projects are always faced with the risk of failure. The effective quantification of the water conservancy project risks and proposing corresponding management and control measures have always been a concern of researchers.
Experiments, theories and numerical methodologies are essential for quantitative characterization of water conservancy project risks. This Research Topic accepts contributions regarding novel methodologies and applications to characterize the water conservancy project risk levels aiming at targeted management and control measures. These fields can promote the cross and integration of different subjects, which can be helpful for improving the development of risk assessment methods. We expect to solve the pivotal problems in the basic aspects of fundamental theories and methods and common prospective technologies from different areas. We encourage the submission of manuscripts covering different topics, from pure and fundamental research to more applied demonstrations and integrated case studies.
The scope of the Research Topic is mainly devoted, but not limited to:
• Resettlement risk of water conservancy projects:
Analysis of the impacts of water conservancy project construction on migrants’ life. Quantitative methods and management measures for resettlement risks to ensure the life and development of migrants.
• Meteorological disasters and flood risks:
Features and mechanisms for compound meteorological and flooding disasters. New statistical model to investigate characteristics of floods and flood-related disasters, and to simulate and predict flood risks. Combining machine learning methods and physical models to improve the simulation and prediction skills of physical models.
• Structural safety of hydraulic engineering:
Analysis of influencing factors on hydraulic structure safety. New calculation models and methods, especially the couple of mechanics, mathematics and modern computing methods, for quantifying failure probability of hydraulic structures.
• Consequences of water conservancy project failures:
Analysis of the factors and mechanisms affecting the consequences of water conservancy project failures. Quantitative calculation methods and management measures for the failure consequences of water conservancy projects.
• Criteria and methods for risk assessment of water conservancy projects:
Assessment criteria that comprehensively consider both hydraulic structural safety and failure consequences. The linkage mechanism between risk assessment criteria and traditional safety assessment standards.
• Risk management and decommissioning decision of water conservancy projects:
Comprehensive risk management methods considering both improving structural safety and reducing potential failure consequences. Decision of decommissioning of water conservancy projects.
