Hydraulic engineering infrastructures are of concern to many people and are likely to
interfere with the environment. Moreover, they are supposed to keep on functioning for many …

Backward erosion piping is an internal erosion process, which compromises the stability of
water retaining structures such as dams and levees. In this paper, we propose a numerical …

Piping is considered as an important failure mechanism for water retaining structures in the
Netherlands. A recently performed study on the safety of Dutch levees raised some doubts …

Detection of early warning signals for the imminent failure of large and complex engineered
structures is a daunting challenge with many open research questions. In this paper we …

One of the most rapidly emerging measures in infrastructure asset management is Structural
Health Monitoring (SHM), which aims at reducing uncertainty in structural performance by …

We present a case study of a Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) hybrid system based on
Brillouin Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors (D-FOS), Vibrating Wire (VW) extensometers and …

A numerical approach for simulating piping erosion is proposed based on an auto-adaptive
moving mesh. This approach adapts a flownet mesh (FM) to discretize the domain. It …

The continuous monitoring of ground deformation and structural movement has become an
important task in engineering. MetaSensing introduces a novel sensor system, the Fast …

The principle of detecting seepage anomalies in water-retaining earthen structures through
temperature monitoring has yet to gain extensive acceptance in modern field applications …

We developed a levee health monitoring system within the UrbanFlood project funded under
the EU 7th Framework Programme. A novel real-time levee health assessment Artificial …