Dike stabilisation under uplift conditions using stabilisation columns: A study on the technical potential of stabilisation columns for improving inner slope stability under uplift conditions

The low lying areas in the Netherlands often consist of soft and low permeable soils like clay and peat on top of a sand layer. Due to high water pressures at the interface between the permeable sand layer and the low permeable top layers, the effective stresses decrease, which can cause lifting of the low permeable top layers. As a consequence...