New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. III: The 17th Street drainage canal

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 740-761

  Seed, R B ^a   Bea, R G ^a   Athanasopoulos Zekkos, A ^a   Boutwell, G P ^b   Bray, J D ^a   Cheung, C ^c   Cobos Roa, D ^d   Harder Jr , L F ^e   Moss, R E S ^f   Pestana, J M ^a   Reimer, M F ^g   Rogers, J D ^h   Storesund, R ^h   Vera Grunauer, X ⁱ   Wartman, J ^j  

^a 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

^b Ardaman and Associates   (United States)

^c HDR Inc   (United States)

^d URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^e HDR Incorporated   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^h Rune Storesund   (United States)

ⁱ CVA Consulting Group   (Ecuador)

^j DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Drainage; Failures; Floods; Hurricanes; Levees; Louisiana

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOOD DAMAGE; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; HURRICANE EFFECTS; LEVEES; SCOUR;

HURRICANE KATRINA;

DRAINAGE;

CANAL; DRAINAGE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODING; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; LEVEE; SHEET PILED WALL; SOIL STRENGTH; STORM SURGE;

LOUISIANA; NEW ORLEANS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42549150057     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2008)134:5(740)     Document Type: Article

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