ABSTRACT
Water infrastructure networks around the world provide protection against flooding, sufficient freshwater supply and a thriving navigation network. Hydraulic structures operating in these networks play an important role in fulfilling these functions. Due to aging, hydraulic structures reach the end of their lifetimes, making replacement, renovation, or any other interference likely. There is a need to have a better prognosis of hydraulic structures’ end of lifetimes. In this paper, we introduce an approach to estimate the timeframes of the functional end of lifetime of hydraulic structures. The approach is part of an integrative framework for the replacement and renovation of hydraulic structures in the complex water system of the Netherlands for the long-term. The development of the approach for functional end of lifetime estimation is still in progress and no final version is available yet. This paper focuses on the proof of concept and presents preliminary results. The potential of this approach is illustrated with a case study in the Netherlands.
