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...

Reclamation of Tidal Flats Within Tidal Basins Alters Centennial Morphodynamic Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise

Reclamation of low-lying tidal flats and floodplains adjacent to present shorelines has been implemented worldwide for both coastal defense and development. While it is technically feasible to monitor the short-term impact of tidal flat embankments, it is challenging to identify long-term and cumulative morphodynamic impact, particularly...

GEOWALL® as a Quay wall

Bank protections are currently constructed with stone, wood, concrete and steel. NETICS has introduced a sustainable and commercially very attractive alternative called the GEOWALL. The goal of this study is to find a viable field of application within the quay structures by considering the arising challenges of a larger scale wall. Additionally...

Centrifuge modeling of an adaptive foundation system for embankments on soft soils

Centrifuge tests are conducted to analyze the behavior of a new adaptive foundation system for embankments on very soft soils. The embankment is constructed in-flight in three stages. Various measurements are taken during the test, which are used for the calibration and verification of a numerical model. This paper describes the new adaptive...

Stability analysis of Embankments located within A-8 interstate motorway Wroc?aw by-pass

Roads support our daily life, and play crucial role in supporting the infrastructure for economic activities. However, road disaster can be caused by different natural conditions of slope failures such as rainfall, steep topography, brittle geology, etc. Road disaster occurrences do not only cause the primary disaster from the infrastructure...

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...

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.)...