Theoretical description of embankment erosion owing to overflow

Geotechnique

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 661-671

  Fujisawa, K ^a   Kobayashi, A ^b   Aoyama, S ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embankments; Erosion; Failure; Numerical modelling; Theoretical analysis; Water flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951936416     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.7.00035     Document Type: Article

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