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Tao, Yida (author)Internal erosion is a frequent cause of dike failure, also known as piping or backward erosion. Uplift is considered a submechanism of internal erosion, together with heave and piping, where all three submechanisms must occur for the dike to reach a failure condition. The principle of the uplift phenomenon is straightforward: it occurs when high...master thesis 2020
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Barendsen, Lot (author)In the Netherlands, dikes are the most commonly used structures to retain water and provide safety against flooding. In order to ensure the safety of these dikes against a number of different failure mechanisms such as backwards erosion piping, wave overtopping and macro stability, a detailed safety assessment has been created. The focus of this...master thesis 2020
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Caspers, Jochem (author)In this master thesis the current Dutch method of combining failure probabilities at different spatial scales is researched. This method is used in the Dutch flood risk analysis of earthen dikes to assess the probability of flooding. Currently, probabilities of flooding for geotechnical failure mechanisms are obtained which are not considered to...master thesis 2020
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- Takahashi, A. (author), Horikoshi, K. (author), Maruyama, T. (author) conference paper 2017
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- Bocovich, C. (author), Kanning, W. (author), Parekh, M. (author), Mooney, M. (author) conference paper 2017
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- Cavagni, A. (author), Cremonesi, S. (author), Tanda, M.G. (author), Giliberti, M.D. (author), La Torre, L. (author), Zanichelli, G. (author), Pavan, S. (author) conference paper 2017
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Robbins, B.A. (author), van Beek, V.M. (author)A novel laboratory device is presented, in which the process of backward erosion piping is observed in cylindrical sand samples oriented horizontally. The cylindrical shape of the testing device constrained the location of the erosion path to the top of the sample, thereby allowing pore pressure measurements to be made in both the eroded pipe...conference paper 2017
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- Giliberti, M.D. (author), Cirincione, M. (author), La Torre, L. (author), Zanichelli, G. (author) conference paper 2017
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Dokter, J.C. (author)Large parts of the Netherlands are exposed to the threats of flooding due to the influence of high water coming from the North Sea region, due to high discharge of rivers like the Meuse and Rhine or due to a combination of North Sea water levels and river discharges. In order to cope these threats, strategies are developed in the Delta Program...master thesis 2015
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Otake, Y. (author), Honjo, Y. (author), Hiramatsu, Y. (author), Lee, K. (author), Kodaka, T. (author)A design scheme is proposed to evaluate the safety of continuous linear structure i.e. river levee. The scheme is developed to establish a procedure to continuously evaluate the stability failure of embankment during flood runoff by seepage, and to identify locations for reinforcement of river levee. A 20km stretch of a fairly large river...conference paper 2015
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Kanning, W. (author), Bocovich, C. (author), Schweckendiek, T. (author), Mooney, M.A. (author)Piping failure of levees is one of the main contributors to flood risk. Piping occurs when the head difference over a levee results in uplift of the inland blanket, followed by backward erosion in the aquifer due to high local flow velocities. Whether piping occurs, highly depends on local geo-hydrological circumstances which are uncertain due...conference paper 2015
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Miranda, C. (author), Teixeira, A. (author), Huber, M. (author), Schweckendiek, T. (author)The traditional Dutch way to deal with piping failure in river dikes is the implementation of piping berms. The disadvantage of such a measure is the required inland space. Relief wells, on the other hand, require less or no inland space representing an attractive alternative solution. The aims of this paper are first, to show how reliability...conference paper 2015
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Honjo, Y. (author), Moro, H. (author), Ishihara, M. (author), Otake, Y. (author)The ministry of land, infrastructures, transportation and tourism (MLIT) of the Japanese government maintains governmental managed river levee for the safety against flood whose total length is more than 10,000 km. The design standard of river levee had been traditionally done based on so called shape based specification, where levee is judged...conference paper 2015
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Robbins, B.A. (author), Sharp, M.K. (author), Corcoran, M.K. (author)The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is conducting research to investigate internal erosion, specifically backward erosion piping, by use of laboratory-scale model testing to understand and properly capture the physics of the problem. Preliminary results show that lower void ratio models, using poorly-graded soils with a...conference paper 2015
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De Visser, M.M. (author), Kanning, W. (author), Koopmans, R. (author), Niemeijer, J. (author)Research to the failure mechanism piping (internal, backward erosion) in the Netherlands shows that the dikes require costly berms to meet the required safety standards. According to the Sellmeijer piping-formula, the d70 (70%-quantile of the grain size distribution by weight) is an important parameter in the resistance against piping. Therefore...conference paper 2015
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Pearson, S. (author), Alhaddad, S. (author), Amarachaharam, T. (author), Darnall, J. (author), Samardzija, I. (author), Serrano, A.M. (author)CIE4061 Multidisciplinary Project: We were tasked with determining the feasibility of dike compartments to mitigate flood risk in Schouwen-Duiveland, The Netherlands. The primary dike protecting the polder of Bruinisse is vulnerable to piping failure, leading to a high probability of flooding. In the event of a flood, the small but deep polder...student report 2015
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Pham Quang, T. (author)This dissertation presents the applications of probabilistic-based frameworks in geotechnical and hydraulic engineering, for the assessment of the Red River dikes in Viet Nam. Dike along rivers often spread over the deltaic environment and its earthen structures are parts of a long civilian history, from hundreds to thousands of years....doctoral thesis 2014
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Miranda, C.A. (author)The traditional Dutch way to deal with piping for river levees is the implementation of piping berms. The disadvantage of such a measure is the inland space required, especially in urban areas. Relief wells, on the other hand, require less or no inland space and therefore represent an attractive solution as mitigation measure against piping. The...master thesis 2014
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Schweckendiek, T. (author)Dikes and levees play a crucial role in flood protection in deltaic areas such as the Netherlands. Internal erosion piping or under-seepage is a major cause of levee failures and a main contributor to the probability of failure of river levees due to the large (mostly geotechnical) uncertainties. The present thesis investigates how geotechnical...doctoral thesis 2014
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Bischiniotis, K. (author)This research follows a fully probabilistic approach in order to estimate the optimal design for a river dike cross-section, taking into account the investment costs. From the theory studied, the failure mechanisms that contribute most to the failure of river dikes are identified. These are overflowing, wave overtopping, piping and inner slope...master thesis 2014