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An Extensive Italian Database of River Embankment Breaches and Damages Open
River embankments are critical flood defense structures, stretching for thousands of kilometers across alluvial plains. They often originated as natural levees resulting from overbank flows and were later enlarged using locally available s…
Reliability analysis of a Po River embankment affected by underseepage Open
Backward erosion piping (BEP) is an internal erosion process that may develop as a consequence of seepage processes through the aquifers underneath river embankment structures. This phenomenon can be identified in the field by observing th…
A Sand Boil Database for Piping Risk Management in the Po River, Italy Open
Sand boil formation at the toe of river embankments is the typical manifestation of the initiation and progression of an internal erosion process known as backward erosion piping, which is recognized to be a major concern in many river sys…
Learning from a Well-documented Geotechnical Cold Case: The Two Towers of Bologna, Italy Open
The Garisenda Tower and the Asinelli Tower, also widely known as the Two Towers, are the best preserved and famous medieval towers in the city of Bologna (Northern Italy). Standing one close to the other, right in the heart of the city cen…
Field measurements on a large natural sand boil along the river Po, Italy Open
Sand boils are the surface manifestation of an erosion process, known as backward erosion piping, which may take place beneath river embankments during high-water events. The risk of embankment failure greatly increases in locations affect…
Climate control on stacked paleosols in the Pleistocene of the Po Basin (northern Italy) Open
Paleosols are recurrent features in alluvial successions and provide information about past sedimentary dynamics and climate change. Through sedimentological analysis on six sediment cores, the mud‐dominated succession beneath the medieval…
On the displacement of a traditional retaining wall when first loaded Open
When the dimensions of the base of a retaining wall have been selected by, for example, some form of limit state analysis (Butterfield, 2012) an assessment ought also to be made of the displacement of the wall during its working life. This…
The compressibility of natural and reconstituted marine clays Open
There is mounting evidence in favour of replacing the e against [Formula: see text] diagram, conventionally used to represent soil compressibility in an oedometer, with a log(v) against [Formula: see text] diagram, which significantly impr…
Analysis of Underseepage Phenomena of River Po Embankments Open
The Po River (Northern Italy) is the longest watercourse in Italy and over half of its length is safeguarded by major river embankments. Their stability is crucial for the local communities, being the Po River plain densely populated. Amon…