Journal of Natural Disaster Science

APPLICATION OF A LOGIT MODEL TO STABILITY EVALUATION OF RIVER LEVEES

Takao UNO
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Gifu University
Hisa MORISUGI
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Gifu University
Toshio SUGII
Research Associate, Department of Civil Engineering, Gifu University
and
Kenji OHASHI
Engineer, Sanken Setsubi Kogyo Co., Tokyo

(Received 28 March, 1987 and in revised form 26 June, 1987)

Abstract

The applicability of a binary logit model to stability evaluation of river levees was investigated and models for both middle/small and large-scale levees were formulated. Although only three or four of the previously determined eleven factors which could influence levee collapse were adopted in the formulated logit models, the predictability and transferability of these models are sufficiently good to make them useful tools with which to evaluate river levee stability.

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