Erosion in geomechanics
Subtitle: applications to dams and levees
By: edited by Stéphane Bonelli
Publisher: ISTE; Wiley
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781848213517
Subjects: Protection; Levees; Soil erosion; Dam failures; Sediment transport; Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the process of internal erosion in hydraulic works : embankment dams and dikes; title: Suffusion, transport, and filtration of fine particles in a granular soil; title: The process of filtration in granular materials; title: Contact erosion between two soils; title: Pipe flow with erosion; title: Modeling of interfacial erosion; title: Physics of sediment and wind transport; title: Two-phase modeling of bed load transport; title: Characterization of natural cohesive sediments and quality of streams; title: Sediment and morpho-dynamic transport in shoreline areas.