Levee body vulnerability to seepage: the case study of the levee failure along the Foenna stream on 1 January 2006 (central Italy)

Journal of Flood Risk Management

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 314-325

  Camici, S ^a   Barbetta, S ^a   Moramarco, T ^a  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geo electrical tomography; levee failure; piping; seepage; vulnerability index

Indexed keywords

EMBANKMENT; FAILURE MECHANISM; FLOOD; LEVEE; PARAMETERIZATION; PIPING; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEEPAGE; TOMOGRAPHY; VULNERABILITY;

ITALY; TUSCANY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84923638882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1753318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12137     Document Type: Article

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