| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 7, 2016
3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FLOODrisk 2016)
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| Article Number | 03021 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Performance and behaviour of flood defences | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160703021 | |
| Published online | 20 October 2016 | |
Numerical modelling of levee stability based on coupled mechanical, thermal and hydrogeological processes
1 AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
2 The Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute of Polish Academy of Science, ul. Wybickiego 7, 31-261 Krakow, Poland
a Corresponding author: dwornik@geol.agh.edu.pl
The numerical modelling of coupled mechanical, thermal and hydrogeological processes for a soil levee is presented in the paper. The modelling was performed for a real levee that was built in Poland as a part of the ISMOP project. Only four parameters were changed to build different flood waves: the water level, period of water increase, period of water decrease, and period of low water level after the experiment. Results of numerical modelling shows that it is possible and advisable to calculate simultaneously changes of thermal and hydro-mechanical fields. The presented results show that it is also possible to use thermal sensors in place of more expensive pore pressure sensors, with some limitations. The results of stability analysis show that the levee is less stable when the water level decreases, after which factor of safety decreases significantly. For all flooding wave parameters described in the paper, the levee is very stable and factor of safety variations for any particular stage were not very large.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2016
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