Search results for: DIKE EMBANKMENT

• SUBSOIL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VISTULA RIVER DIKES

  Publication

  • L. Bałachowski
  • Z. Sikora

  - Year 2014

  The results of CPTU tests are used to determine the strength parameters of a dike subsoil. Stress state and stress history of the subsoil under the flood embankment was evaluated with CPTU and DMT tests. Normally consolidated soil was found under the central part of the dike, while the subsoil near the dike toe is found to be overconsolidated. Due to consolidation the undrained shear strength of the subsoil under the central part...

• Overflowing tests at the Polish DredgDikes research dike – stability of the dike surface against erosion

  Publication

  • J. Olschewski
  • S. Cantré
  • F. Saathoff
  • R. Duszyński
  • R. Ossowski

  - Engineering Structures and Technologies - Year 2014

  In the project DredgDikes the different research dike embankments were tested with respect to overflowing water induced erosion. Therefore, flumes were installed on the land side embankments in which the effect of overflowing water on the vegetated surface was investigated. On the Polish DredgDikes research dike near Gdansk, Poland, two parallel flumes were installed and the surface of the dike made of different mixtures of...

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