Search Results - "PEETERS, Patrik"
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Greening the dike revetment with historic sod transplantation technique in a living lab
Published in Journal of flood risk management (01-06-2024)“…Coastal flood managers seek to anticipate future flood risk and as a result consider the adaptation of flood defences. Instead of crest heightening, dikes can…”
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Stability of a Tidal Marsh Under Very High Flow Velocities and Implications for Nature-Based Flood Defense
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (28-07-2022)“…Nature-based strategies, such as wave attenuation by tidal marshes, are increasingly proposed as a complement to mitigate the risks of failure of engineered…”
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Overflow Tests on Grass-Covered Embankments at the Living Lab Hedwige-Prosperpolder: An Overview
Published in Water (Basel) (01-09-2022)“…In regions with a temperate climate, a well-maintained grass sod on a clay layer is considered a reliable protection for dams and dikes. In the Living Lab…”
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Comparing overflow and wave-overtopping induced breach initiation mechanisms in an embankment breach experiment
Published in E3S web of conferences (01-01-2016)“…As part of the SAFElevee project Delft University of Technology collabored with Flanders Hydraulics Research, and Infram B.V. in the preperation and execution…”
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Relating grass failure on the landside slope to wave overtopping induced excess normal stresses
Published in Coastal engineering (Amsterdam) (01-06-2019)“…A high quality safety assessment of levee systems requires a good prediction of when the grass cover of levees fail. Current methods relate the onset of…”
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Root properties of vegetation communities and their impact on the erosion resistance of river dikes
Published in Earth surface processes and landforms (01-11-2016)“…Predicted climate change and the associated sea level rise poses an increased threat of flooding due to wave overtopping events at sea and river dikes. To…”
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Earthen Embankment Breaching
Published in Journal of hydraulic engineering (New York, N.Y.) (01-12-2011)Get full text
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First results of geophysical and geotechnical investigations along the Hedwige- and Prosperpolder dykes
Published in First break (01-08-2019)Get full text
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Headcut migration prediction of the cohesive embankment breach
Published in Engineering geology (17-09-2013)“…Headcut erosion occurs in the development of a cohesive embankment breach and plays an important role in the breaching process. The headcut development is a…”
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