Influence of desiccation fissuring on the stability of flood embankments
It has been known since studies carried out by Cooling and Marsland for the 1953 North Sea Floods that desiccation fissuring of clay fill can play a major role in the failure of flood embankments under overflow conditions. However, very little scientific research has been carried out into the onset...
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University of Strathclyde
2009
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