River-damming by landslides is a widespread phenomenon around the world. Recent
advances in remote sensing technology and the rising commercial availability of their …

Internal erosion is susceptible to occur in conditions where there are cracks or pre-formed
cavities at the interface between the dam foundation and embankment. The initiation of …

Seepage-induced internal erosion in earth-filled embankment dams has been attracting the
attention of civil engineering researchers and practitioners for decades. Microbially induced …

Suffusion, the process of particle migration and clogging within porous media, exerts a
remarkable impact on various natural and engineered systems. Properties of the coarse …

Earth embankment dams are one of the most commonly constructed hydraulic
infrastructures worldwide. One mode of dam failure is piping through the embankment …

The macroscopic phenomena and microscopic origin of penetrative migration and retention
of fine particles in porous skeleton under the action of seepage are not yet clear. Migrating …

The transmission effect refers to the migration of eroded fine particles between the
neighboring gap-graded soil matrix, and its influence on suffusion is rarely investigated. A …

Seepage-induced fine-particle migration that leads to a change in the conductivity of a soil
matrix is referred to as internal instability. This could jeopardize the structural integrity of the …

The flow direction is generally different from the gravity direction in geotechnical structures
or slopes, the effect of which during suffusion remains unclear. This paper presents a …

This book integrates the physical processes of dam breaching and the mathematical aspects
of risk assessment in a concise manner• The first book that introduces the causes, processes …