Climate change and deterioration require a continuous effort to reinforce flood defences and
meet reliability requirements. To efficiently upgrade flood defence systems, insight in costs …

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 …

New methods are required to combine the information contained in the passive electrical
and seismic signals to detect, localize and monitor hydromechanical disturbances in porous …

Internal erosion is the cause of a significant percentage of failure and incidents involving
both dams and river embankments in many countries. In the past 20 years the use of fibre …

This article presents a novel multiscale modeling approach to simulate the evolution of the
backward erosion piping (BEP) process in flood protection systems (FPSs). A multiphase …

Internal erosion is the cause of significant damage in dams and river embankments in many
countries. In the last 20 years, the use of fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing (DTS) …

Piping erosion is one of the major causes of failure of flood defences. The occurrence of this
failure mechanism is difficult to predict and it can be triggered during a flood event. The …

This paper focuses on understanding the temporal behavior of backward erosion using
measurements from densely spaced piezometers during large-scale field experiments in …

Spatial variability and limited measurements often result in low reliability estimates of
geotechnical failure modes of dikes (ie, earthen flood defences). Required dike …

Backward erosion piping is a relevant failure mechanism for water–retaining structures that
determines uncertainty in residual flooding hazard and risk mapping. The occurrence of …