A field experiment on beach growth in sand-dikes

Title

A field experiment on beach growth in sand-dikes

 Author

Visser, P.J.
Vrijling, J.K.
Verhagen, H.J.

Faculty

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

 Department

Hydraulic Engineering

 Date

1990-01-01

 Abstract

The set-up and results of a field experiment on sand-dike breach erosion are described, It is found that the breaching process for the 2.2 m high sand-dike is similar to that in Visser's (1988) laboratory experiments with a 0.6 m high sand-dike. Confrontation of Visser's (1988) breach erosion model with the field data shows reasonable agreement for the first stages of the breaching process. As yet the model is not applicable to the final phase of the sand-dike breach erosion. If applied then it would fairly overestimate the breach growth in this final stage.

 Subject

breaching
dikes
erosion

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 Publisher

American Society for Civil Engineers ASCE

 Source

International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE), 1990, Delft, chapter 158

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

conference paper

 Rights

(c) 1990 Visser, P.J.; Vrijling, J.K.; Verhagen, H.J.
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