Earthen dams and levees are prone to progressive failure through internal erosion of their
structure. Internal erosion is often invisible to current methods of inspection until it manifests …

Structural reliability analysis often considers failure mechanisms as correlated but non-
interacting processes. Interacting failure mechanisms affect each others performance, and …

Internal erosion, a major cause of failure of earthen dams and levees, is often difficult to
detect at early stages using traditional visual inspection. The passive seismic-interferometry …

Forensic analysis of past failures is valuable to improve our understanding of levee
behavior. In this article a new systematic approach of forensic analysis for levee failures is …

A case study is presented of the Adige River embankment, a segment of which experienced
instability of the landside slope due to the development of uplift pressures. Soil profile and …

Piping is one of the main failure mechanisms for flood defences. This paper gives an
overview of recent developments in the reliability analysis for this mechanism in the …

Failure of flood defences during extreme events can lead to enormous damage and loss of
life. This paper presents lessons learned from investigations of flood events over recent …

General reliability assessment of levees embankment is performed with safety factors for
rainfall characteristics and hydrologic and hydraulic parameters, based on the results of …

In the last century, approximately 100,000 people lost their lives during a flood event and
over 1.4 billion people were affected. As the population and economic activities grow in …

The previous chapter showed that former experimental studies have led to indispensable
knowledge on key aspects of backward erosion piping either by analyzing the critical …