Embedded structures in flood defenses

Aguilar Lopez, J.P.

Embedded structures in flood defenses

Effects on safety and failures

Book chapter (2017)

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J.P. Aguilar Lopez Water Resources

Research Group

Water Resources

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2017

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English

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Research Group

Water Resources

Abstract

Flood
defenses are exposed to deterioration processes that compromise their
stability. These processes are called ‘failure mechanisms’ and they are mostly
triggered and/or exacerbated by the hydraulic loads generated during extreme
high water events, which are becoming more frequent due to climate change.
Concepts such as the ‘Delta dike’ or the ‘Unbreachable dike’ have been
developed in the Netherlands to deal with these failure mechanisms.

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