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Advances in multi-physics and multi-scale couplings in geo-environmental mechanics /

Advances in Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Couplings in Geo-Environmental Mechanics reunites some of the most recent work from the French research group MeGe GDR (National Research Group on Multiscale and Multiphysics Couplings in Geo-Environmental Mechanics) on the theme of multi-scale and multi-phy...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Nicot, Fran�cois (Editor), Millet, Olivier (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Kidlinton, Oxford : ISTE Press ; Elsevier, 2018.
Series:Civil engineering and geomechanics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 9 State of the Art on the Likelihood of Internal Erosion of Dams and Levees by Means of Testing / Luc Sibille
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Experimental findings on interface erosion
  • 9.2.1. Introduction
  • 9.2.2. Comparative analysis of interface erosion tests
  • 9.2.3. Interpretation by energy method
  • 9.2.4. Statistical analysis
  • 9.3. Experimental findings on suffusion
  • 9.3.1. mechanics-based understanding of suffusion
  • 9.3.2. General principle of laboratory suffusion test apparatus
  • 9.3.3. Parametric studies
  • 9.3.4. Characterizing suffusion susceptibility
  • 9.4. description of internal erosion based on flow power
  • 9.4.1. Detachment of solid particles / initiation of erosion
  • 9.4.2. Description of internal erosion including a filtration step
  • 9.5. Numerical approaches to describing internal erosion effects in soils
  • 9.5.1. DEM approach
  • 9.5.2. Micromechanical approach
  • 9.5.3. Comparison between numerical results from DEM and micromechanical model
  • 9.5.4. Conclusion
  • 9.6. General conclusion
  • 9.7. Bibliography
  • ch. 10 Mechanical Stability of River Banks Submitted to Fluctuations of the Water Level / Soksan Chun
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. Background and general methods of analysis
  • 10.2.1. Flow regimes and fluvial morphology
  • 10.2.2. Seepage analysis
  • 10.2.3. Stability analysis
  • 10.3. built-in model for bank stability analysis
  • 10.3.1. Groundwater seepage model
  • 10.3.2. Erosion model
  • 10.3.3. Mass stability model
  • 10.3.4. Validation of MEStab code by comparison to finite element results
  • 10.3.5. Coupling erosion with seepage and mass slide
  • 10.4. Application to the Lower Mekong Basin
  • 10.4.1. Seasonal River Flow Regime
  • 10.4.2. Observed changes in the Mekong River morphology
  • 10.4.3. Case study of the stability of a river bank at Kampong Cham
  • 10.5. Conclusions and perspectives
  • 10.6. Bibliography.