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Boukalova, Z.; Benes, V. (author)More than 500,000 km of embankment are used in Europe for transport and flood defence, representing a 1bn infrastructure asset base, which supports and protects the economy of Europe (e.g. property worth some 2,000 bn is protected from flooding.) Presently the state and performance of these embankments can only be investigated visually or by...report 2009
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Morris, M. (author)This report provides an overview of the technical work undertaken by the partners under FLOODsite Task 6. The research in Task 6 addresses breach initiation and growth. Research was undertaken to (i) investigate and develop preliminary models for predicting wave induced breach initiation (ii) investigate soil processes, review and refine the HR...report 2009