Numerous landslide dams have been induced in recent years as a result of frequent
earthquakes and extreme climate hazards. Landslide dams present serious threats to lives …

Seepage-induced internal erosion in earth-filled embankment dams has been attracting the
attention of civil engineering researchers and practitioners for decades. Microbially induced …

Biopolymers, which are naturally produced polymers, exhibit hydraulic and mechanical
properties, and have low environmental impact. Therefore, they can be employed as an …

Earth embankment dams are one of the most commonly constructed hydraulic
infrastructures worldwide. One mode of dam failure is pi** through the embankment …

Behaviour of granular soils subjected to internal erosion involves complex coupling between
solid–fluid interaction, skeleton deformation and microstructural evolutions. This paper …

This book integrates the physical processes of dam breaching and the mathematical aspects
of risk assessment in a concise manner• The first book that introduces the causes, processes …

The characteristics of suffusion and its mechanical consequences on saturated
cohesionless soil with different initial fines contents at various stress states are presented in …

Infrastructure embankment failures due to flooding have been recorded in many countries.
The consequences of flood-induced embankment failures have mainly been limited to …

Pore clogging and unclogging in porous media are ubiquitous in subsurface hydrologic
processes, which have been studied extensively at various scales ranging from a single …

Suffusion is one of the most common causes of hydraulic geological structure failure. During
the suffusion process, particle shape is a significant factor to affect the micro-structure and …