Testing and modeling of sheet pile reinforced dikes on organic soils: Insights from the Eemdijk full-scale failure test

The Netherlands is inherently challenged by water, as a large part of the country lies below sea level and several major rivers in North-western Europe cross the country. The most prevalent form of protection from coastal and river floods in the Netherlands includes approximately 22,000 km of earthen dikes, of which 3800 km are primary flood...

Probabilistic design of the Land Barrier on the Bolivar Peninsula, Texas

The Houston Metropolitan area is a hurricane prone area and vulnerable to flooding by large storm surges caused by these extreme storm events. The area is a major economic center in the State of Texas and even the whole United States. Protection of the area against flooding is extremely necessary to protect the economy, community and environment...

Determination of Spatial Variability in d70 Grain Size Values Using High Density Site Measurements

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...

Alternative designs for hurricane protection systems and building structures in New Orleans

First the demands and the boundary conditions are set for the complete protection system; after that the protection system will be split in the three subsections (primary: peripheral levees, secondary: canal levees and watermanagement and tertiary: structural integrety housing). For each of these protection systems an analysis will be made; this...

Technisch rapport golfoploop en golfoverslag bij dijken

Richtlijnen voor het berekenen van golfoploop en golfoverslag over dijken en andere constructies met een talud. Effect van de berm, ondiep voorland en het breken van golven.

Innovatieve waterkeringen

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...