Piping: Centrifuge experiments on scaling effects and levee stability

Physical Modelling in Geotechnics - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics 2010, ICPMG 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 183-189

  Van Beek, V M ^a   Bezuijen, A ^a   Zwanenburg, C ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGE EXPERIMENTS; CENTRIFUGE TESTS; HYDRAULIC HEADS; LENGTH SCALE; PIPING PROCESS; PREDICTION MODEL; RESIDUAL STRENGTH; SAND LAYER; SAND TRANSPORT; SCALING EFFECTS;

CENTRIFUGES; LEVEES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84861021616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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