Annual meeting EUROPEAN WORKING GROUP on INTERNAL EROSION IN EMBANKMENT DAMS & THEIR FOUNDATIONS April 12th to 14th 2010, Granada, Spain

Organizers:
Universidad de Granada
EDF CIH

Flyer, Programme

Day 1, April, 12th, 2010

Conferences and discussions on engineering methods for assessing the risk of internal erosion and conclusions to be presented in ICOLD Executive meeting and Innsbruck European Club of ICOLD

• Pinettes et al, Return on experience from the 2009 IjkDijk piping tests
• Smith and Cote, Seepage detection methods for embankment dams
• Cunat, Adaptation of a controlled site for leakage detection and quantification with fiber optics
• Dornstädter, Detection of erosion flow path during 1:1 scale experiment using fibre optic Heat Pulse Method at Ijkdijk
• Radzicki and Bonelli, A possibility to identify piping erosion using thermal monitoring
• Radzicki and Bonelli, Thermical seepage monitoring with the Impulse Response Function Analysis (IRFA)
• Koelewijn, Performance of detection techniques at four full-scale seepage

Day 2, April, 13th, 2010

Conferences and discussions on filter / geotextiles criteria and conclusions to be presented in ICOLD Executive meeting and Innsbruck European Club of ICOLD

• Beguin, Faure and Guidoux, Erosion produced by a tangential water flow at the interface between two different soils
• Goltz, Aufleger, Muckenthaler, Critical Filter Velocity For Particle Transport – The Approach of Muckenthaler
• Dabska, Popielski, Modeling of instability caused by suffusion
• Benahmed, Assessment of erodibilityof cohesive soils using Hole Erosion Test
• Brown, UK dam safety Current issues and implications for the Internal Erosion Bulletin
• Fannin, Internal stability: geo-hydro-mechanics framework
• Garner, Understanding Internal Erosion, 10 Years of Research Following a Sinkhole Event
• Sellmeijer,López de la Cruz, Fine-tuning of the piping model through small-scale, medium-scale and full-scale (IJkdijk) experiments
• Riha, Assessment of internal erosion using the limit state method
• Brown, Internal Erosion of Existing Embankment Dams and their Foundations: draft ICOLD Bulletin
• Goltz, Aufleger, Perzlmaier, Effects of Deformation and Stress in Embankment Dams on DFOT Monitoring Results
• van Beek, Knoeff, Förster, Koelewijn, Observations of piping at the IJkdijk testsite in the Netherlands

Day 3, April, 14th, 2010

Conferences and discussions on methods of detection and conclusions to be presented in ICOLD Executive meeting and Innsbruck European Club of ICOLD

• Fry, On the influence of Turbulence in internal erosion
• Fry, HOW CAN WE CHECK, COMBINE, PRESENT, AND USE THE CRITERIA FOR DAM FILTERS ? (GRANULAR OR GEOTEXTILE FILTERS)
• Artières, Filtration with Geotextiles
• CEJDA, RIHA, THE INITIATION OF INTERNAL EROSION PROCESS AT THE MOSTISTE DAM
• Torres, NOTES ON PREVENTION OF INTERNAL DAM EROSION WITH FILTERS, DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE

Day 4, April, 15th, 2010

Technical tour