Print Email Facebook Twitter Impact of the Eemdijk full-scale test programme (Impact du programme d'essais à grande échelle Eemdijk) Title Impact of the Eemdijk full-scale test programme (Impact du programme d'essais à grande échelle Eemdijk) Author Breedeveld, J. (Deltares) Zwanenburg, C. (Deltares) Van, M. (POV|Macrostability; Deltares) Lengkeek, H.J. (TU Delft Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk; Witteveen+Bos) Contributor Sigursteinsson, Haraldur (editor) Erlingsson, Sigurour (editor) Erlingsson, Sigurour (editor) Bessason, Bjarni (editor) Date 2019 Abstract Levees in the Netherlands have traditionally been constructed from soil. Climate change and land subsidence require heightening and/or reinforcing these existing levees. Traditional reinforcements demand additional space, which in some cases conflicts with existing buildings. Applying sheet pile walls in levees allows for strengthening while minimizing needed footprint. However, a validated design approach that complies with relevant regulations lacked. To enable validation, a full-scale field test programme has been performed near the town of Eemdijk (The Netherlands). This has resulted in better insight in the soil-structure interaction of the structurally reinforced levee, on soft soil, loaded by high water and uplift conditions. This paper describes the rationale behind the test setup and operation of the test programme in relation to the current design codes and guidelines. First the set of knowledge questions to be resolved is considered. These questions gave direction to the type of failure tests, the required instrumentation and the impact of conclusions. Subject sheet pile walllevee reinforcementfull-scale testvalidationEemdijkproef To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bd5d60bf-c519-47be-bddc-25eff84d713e Publisher Icelandic Geotechnical Society (IGS) Embargo date 2020-03-06 ISBN 978-9935-9436-1-3 Source Proceedings of the XVII ECSMGE-2019: Geotechnical Engineering foundation of the future Event The XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2019-09-01 → 2019-09-06, Reykjavik, Iceland Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2019 J. Breedeveld, C. Zwanenburg, M. Van, H.J. Lengkeek Files PDF 0399_ecsmge_2019_breedeveldetal.pdf 877.19 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:bd5d60bf-c519-47be-bddc-25eff84d713e/datastream/OBJ/view