MSettle Version 8.2 - Embankment Design and Soil Settlement Prediction

This is the user manual for MSetuser manual tle, which is being developed by Delft GeoSystems, a Deltares company. MSettle is a dedicated tool for predicting soil settlements by external loading. MSettle accurately and quickly determines the direct settlement, consolidation and creep along verticals in two-dimensional geometry. GeoDelft has been...

Breach flow discharge prediction - Analysis of USDA breach flow dataset

This report concerns the analysis of flow/discharge measurements obtained from a set of 441 “rigid breach” models constructed between 22/07/1996 and 10/12/1998 at the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Stillwater, Oklahoma, US, by G.J. Hanson and colleagues. Each model consisted of a rigid...

Door grond horizontaal belaste palen: Case no recess

In dit rapport zijn de cases opgenomen met betrekking tot validatie van bestaande modellen voor het bepalen van de horizontale grondvervorming. Het betreft de case NO-RECESS waaraan 2 afstudeerders, afzonderlijk, bij Fugro Ingenieursbureau hebben gewerkt. Het gaat om het afstudeerwerk van I. Cherqaoui en R. Servais. Naar aanleiding van beide...

Breaching of coastal dikes: State of the art

Coastal dikes are used as defence structures against flooding in lowland areas and where high tidal ranges occur. The development of a breach induced by wave overtopping has been one of the most frequent causes of dike failure and it is closely related both to the dynamics of a protected coast and to the flood risk assessment and management. At...

Breach growth in clay-dikes

Numerous flood disasters occur every year worldwide, mostly resulting from failure of dikes, some with catastrophic outcomes. Examples are the dike failures along the Yangtze River in China in 1931 due to heavy rainstorms and those in the Netherlands in 1953 due to a storm surge at the North Sea. Both floods induced many deaths and enormous...

Train-induced ground vibrations: Modeling and experiments

Ground vibrations generated by high-speed trains are of great concern because of the possible damage they can cause to buildings or other structures near the track, and the annoyance to the public living in the vicinity of the track. Particularly in soft-soil regions, where the wave speed is comparable to the speed of the trains, a strong...

Condition Rating Procedures for Earth and Rockfill Embankment Dams: REMR Management Systems-Flood Control Structures

As a technical report, this document is intended to be a summary of research results. The results include a product that can be used by Districts and others outside the Corps. Current Corps guidance on the use of CIs includes no references to embankment dams or floodcontrol projects. At this time, therefore, each decision maker must individually...

Technical report on soil structures

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

Investigation of slip failures at Henrietta and Anna Regina

More than six kilometers of rehabilitation works on sea defences at the Essequibo and West Deroerara coast of Guyana has been constructed within one year. This shows the fast construction of the riprap revetment design. The performance of the structure was good until the last month of construction when two slip failures occurred of a bout 100 m...

A study of possible bank protection measures near the Meghna Bridge, Bangladesh

In 1990, in Bangladesh, the "Meghna roads and highway bridge"was finisthed. This bridge is the first one in a series of two Bridges replacing the ferries over the Upper Meghna River. During construction, and also after the finalization of the Bridge, it was revealed that the designers of this Bridge underestimated the power of the Upper Meghna...

JAMUNA BRIDGE BANK PROTECTION RESEARCH PROJECT

INTRODUCTION GENERAL SUMMARY OF EXPERIMENTS THE HARTEL CANAL PROTOTYPE EXPERIMENTS INTRODUCTION SITUATION INSTALLED INSTRUMENTS HYDRAULIC LOADS BEHAVIOUR OF TEST EMBANKMENTS Loose materials Plaeed (free) bloeks Flexible interloeked bloek revetments Sand-sausage mattresses (Profix) PVC Reno mattresses (Maeeaferri Gabions) Fixtone (Bitumarin B.V.)...

Long Term Monitoring Test Embankments Bloemendalerpolder – GeoImpuls Program

In the Bloemendalerpolder two test embankments were constructed, starting October 2010, to study the long term behaviour of embankments on very soft soils with respect to settlement and lateral pile loading resulting from horizontal soil deformations. A 4 to 6 m thick very soft peat layer underlies the existing grasslands at the...