Experimental investigation of global backward erosion and suffusion of soils in embankment dams

Many embankment dams constructed with a core of nonplastic or very low plasticity silt–sand–gravel (typically of glacial, fluvioglacial or alluvial origin) have experienced internal erosion. This has often expressed itself with the development of sinkholes or with intermittent episodes of increased...

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