Forensic analyses and hindcasting of the Breitenhagen levee failure
J.J. Kool (TU Delft - Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk)
W. Kanning (TU Delft - Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk)
C. Jommi (TU Delft - Geo-engineering)
Sebastiaan N. Jonkman (TU Delft - Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk)
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Abstract
The hindcasting of levee failures can provide valuable information about levee strength, strength models and dominant factors that contribute to failure. It is however not always clear how and why a levee failed as evidence (such as detail subsoil composition) is not present anymore.