Erosion in Geomechanics Applied to Dams and Levees

Stéphane Bonelli is a Research Professor at Irstea (French Environmental Sciences and Technologies Research Institute). He has over 20 years of teaching and research experience, and has been a member of the ICOLD (International Commission on Large Dams) European Working Group on Internal Erosion since 2005. He has participated to 19 large dam reviews in France (visual inspection, monitoring data analysis and numerical modeling). His current activities include research, teaching and consultancy, focusing on soil erosion and the processes of levee breach.

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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