ABSTRACT
The Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment of The Netherlands and Rijkswa-terstaat (RWS) aim to launch a risk-driven maintenance concept named RAMSSHEEP. Engineering and consultancy companies are expected to develop the RAMSSHEEP concept in order to create better maintenance strategies. The objective is to investigate whether RAMSSHEEP can be applied as a risk-driven maintenance tool for primary flood defence systems in The Netherlands. By applying a probabilistic approach to a flooding problem, more insight is gained in the advantages and disadvantages of RAM-SSHEEP. This paper addresses the problem which primary flood defence systems experience with respect to maintenance strategies. Often external political pressure is applied to improve reliability and availability and to reduce costs significantly. Therefore this paper suggests an approach that is able to find an optimal maintenance strategy by finding the economic most beneficial maintenance interval.
