Development of fragility curves for railway embankment and ballast scour due to overtopping flood flow

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2455-2472

  Tsubaki, Ryota ^a   David Bricker, Jeremy ^b   Ichii, Koji ^c   Kawahara, Yoshihisa ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE; EMBANKMENT; FLOOD; FLUID FLOW; HYDRAULICS; MODEL VALIDATION; OVERTOPPING; RAILWAY; SCOUR;

JAPAN;

EID: 85000460117     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-16-2455-2016     Document Type: Article

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