Erosion in Geomechanics Applied to Dams and Levees
herausgegeben von Stephane BonelliErosion is the most common cause of failures at earth-dams, dikes and levees, whether through overtopping and overflowing, orinternal erosion and piping. This book is dedicated to thephenomenon of internal erosion and piping. It is not intended to beexhaustive on the subject, but brings together some of the latestinternational research and advances. Emphasis is placed on physicalprocesses, how they can be studied in the laboratory, and how testresults can be applied to levees and dams. The results from severalresearch projects in Australia, France, the Netherlands and theUnited States are covered by the authors. Our aim has been to shareour most recent findings with students, researchers andpractitioners. Understanding the failure of an earth-dam or a leveeby erosion in a unified framework, whether internal erosion orsurface erosion, requires continuous research in this field. Wehope that the reader will gain knowledge from this book that leadsto further progress in the challenging field of the safety oflevees and dams.
Contents
1. State of The Art on the Likelihood of Internal Erosion ofDams and Levees by Means of Testing, Robin Fell and Jean-JacquesFry.
2. Contact Erosion, Pierre Philippe, Rémi Beguin andYves-Henri Faure.
3. Backward Erosion Piping, Vera Van Beek, Adam Bezuijen and HansSellmeijer.
4. Concentrated Leak Erosion, Stéphane Bonelli, Robin Fell andNadia Benahmed.
5. Relationship between the Erosion Properties of Soils and OtherParameters, Robin Fell, Gregory Hanson, Gontran Herrier, DidierMarot and Tony Wahl.
About the Authors
Stéphane Bonelli is a Research Professor at Irstea (FrenchEnvironmental Sciences and Technologies Research Institute) inAix-en-Provence, France. He has over 20 years of teaching andresearch experience, and has been a member of the ICOLD(International Commission on Large Dams) European Working Group onInternal Erosion since 2005. He has participated in 19 large damreviews in France (visual inspection, monitoring data analysis andnumerical modeling). His current activities include research, teaching and consultancy, focusing on soil erosion and theprocesses of levee breach.
Contents
1. State of The Art on the Likelihood of Internal Erosion ofDams and Levees by Means of Testing, Robin Fell and Jean-JacquesFry.
2. Contact Erosion, Pierre Philippe, Rémi Beguin andYves-Henri Faure.
3. Backward Erosion Piping, Vera Van Beek, Adam Bezuijen and HansSellmeijer.
4. Concentrated Leak Erosion, Stéphane Bonelli, Robin Fell andNadia Benahmed.
5. Relationship between the Erosion Properties of Soils and OtherParameters, Robin Fell, Gregory Hanson, Gontran Herrier, DidierMarot and Tony Wahl.
About the Authors
Stéphane Bonelli is a Research Professor at Irstea (FrenchEnvironmental Sciences and Technologies Research Institute) inAix-en-Provence, France. He has over 20 years of teaching andresearch experience, and has been a member of the ICOLD(International Commission on Large Dams) European Working Group onInternal Erosion since 2005. He has participated in 19 large damreviews in France (visual inspection, monitoring data analysis andnumerical modeling). His current activities include research, teaching and consultancy, focusing on soil erosion and theprocesses of levee breach.
