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The most common failure modes of water retaining structures and their foundations, including embankment dams, dykes and levees, results from erosion. This book is a treatise that brings together some of the latest international research and advances on the experimental approaches to erosion in geomechanics.
Chapter 1. State of the art on the likelihood of internal erosion of dams and levees by means of testing
Chapter 2. Erosion widening and breach widening, historical and experimental observations
Chapter 3. Suffusion and internal instability
Chapter 4. Backward erosion piping
Chapter 5. Contact erosion
Chapter 6. Concentrated leak erosion
Chapter 7. Head cut development and impinging jet erosion process
Chapter 8. Relationship between the erosion properties of soils and other soil parameters
Chapter 9. Terminology and typology of erosion phenomena
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