Fundamentals on Water Defences

English translation of "grondslagen voor waterkeringen". This guideline offers an overview of the design backgrounds of dikes and levees. It describes the system that leads to the need for water defences and the systems whose function it is to retain water or which are related to it and why this function is allocated. Attention is paid to the...

Technical report on soil structures

Design guideline for earth structures (especially water retaining earth structures) like dikes and embankments.

Technical report Clay for dikes

The current report is a Technical Report in which the results of various studies are brought together and placed in some sort of logical context. The aim of the report is to give insight into the properties of clay that are important for dike construction and to give direction to an unequivocal evaluation of clay. Based on the functions to be...