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US Army Corps of Engineers
Institute for Water Resources, Risk Management Center Website
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Decision Support System for Water Infrastructural Security Web (DHS DSS-WISE)
Semi-Quantitative Risk
Documents and References
RMC-TR-2021-02: Estimating Flood Hazard for Dams and Levees with Upstream Regulation
RMC-TR-2019-07: Data Sources for Estimating Hydrologic Hazards for Semi-Quantitative Risk
RMC-TR-2018-03: Hydrologic Hazard Methodology for Semi-Quantitative Risk Assessments: And Inflow Volume-Based Approach to Estimating Stage-Frequency Curves for Dams
RMC-TN-2018-01: SQRA Calculation Methodology
Best Practices in Dam and Levee Risk Analysis Chapter A-04 Semi-Quantitative Risk Analysis
Software and Tools
RMC Software and Tools
RMC SQRA Tools
Related Training
DLS-101 Introduction to Dam and Levee Risk Assessment
DLS-102B Introduction to USACE SQRA Process and Guidelines
U.S. Society on Dams – Leveraging PFMA to Perform SQRA Workshop
DLS-104 Best Practices in Dam and Levee Safety Risk Analysis
Quantitative Risk
Documents and References
Best Practices in Dam and Levee Risk Analysis
RMC Technical Reports
RMC Technical Notes
Software and Tools
RMC Software and Tools
RMC QRA Tools
iPresas Risk Analysis
Event Tree Software:
DATA—TreeAge Software
DecisionPro—Vanguard Software Cooperation
Event Tree Analysis (ETA)—SoHaR
Event Tree Module—Isograph
PrecisionTree—Palisades Software
RAM Commander's Event Tree Analysis Module—ALD
RiskSpectrum—PSA software
Fault Tree Software
EMFTA: Open Source Tool for Fault Tree Analysis—CMU
Fault Tree Analysis—Isograph
Fault Tree Analyzer—ALD
Fault Tree Diagram Software—SmartDraw
ITEM Toolkit Fault Tree Analysis—Item Software
Monte Carlo Simulation Software
@RISK—Palisades Software 90
Crystal Ball—Oracle
GoldSim—GoldSim Software
Model Risk—Vose Software
Matlab and Simulink—The Math Works
Risk Engine for Mac—Engineering for the Real World
Related Training
DLS-101 Introduction to Risk Assessment for Dam and Levee Risk Assessment
DLS-102B Introduction to USACE SQRA Process and Guidelines
U.S. Society on Dams – Leveraging PFMA to Perform SQRA Workshop
DLS-104 Best Practices in Dam and Levee Safety Risk Analysis
Other Important References
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and Technical Information (OSTI) 2019 –
Current State-of-Practice in Dam Safety Risk Assessment
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2002 –
Degrees of Belief: Subjective Probability and Engineering Judgement
Kahneman, D.,
Thinking, Fast and Slow.
2013. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
National Flood Risk Analysis for the Netherlands 2015
Seminal Papers Series
Seminal Papers in Risk Assessment of Dams and Levees
RMC-TR-2018-13,
Annotated Readings in the History of Risk Analysis in Dam Safety
Seminal Papers in Flood Risk Hydrology
List of Seminal Papers in Flood Risk Hydrology