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Understanding levee erosion.

Publications on modeling and simulating levee erosion and failure.

2016

  • Mehrad Kamalzare, Thomas F. Zimmie, Barbara Cutler, and W. Randolph Franklin. A new visualization method to evaluate sediment transport and erosion. Geotechnical Testing Journal, May 2016. doi:https://doi.org/10.1520/GTJ20140226.
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    Abstract
    The objective of this research is to develop tools that would improve the understanding of the process of levee failure because of erosion and reduce the risk of failure. Hydraulic erosion is a complicated phenomenon and depends on many different parameters. To improve design criteria for levees, embankments, and earthen structures, the development of realistic computer models that can simulate the erosion process is necessary. Verification of these computer simulations, as with any simulation, is a necessity. In this research, a large number of physical levee erosion tests were performed at 1g and at high g's using a geotechnical centrifuge. Centrifuge tests were performed to simulate real (prototype) size levees, and thus to obtain a more realistic model. The erosion was modeled physically in detail. Conventional three-dimensional scanning was used to precisely verify the calculated dimensions of initial and final computer model geometries, but did not yield interim data or measurements of the quantity of eroded soil during the tests. A Kinect device was used to scan and evaluate the volume of eroded soil and variation of the shape of the channels as a function of time. Three-dimensional images were obtained, and variations of different parameters were plotted. Various quantities were measured as a function of time. Based on recorded videos and pictures taken during the tests, it was discovered that the Kinect results agreed well with the physical models. The Kinect is a low-cost sensor, and enables the measurement of the rate of soil erosion, which, if done at all, usually requires expensive equipment. The Kinect device was also used in the centrifuge experiments, and functioned well in the high genvironment. It is believed to be the first use of a Kinect device in a centrifuge. The application of this method in other laboratory experiments was also investigated.
    BibTeX
    @article{kamalzare-gtj-2016,
    author = "Kamalzare, Mehrad and Zimmie, Thomas F. and Cutler, Barbara and Franklin, W. Randolph",
    title = "A New Visualization Method to Evaluate Sediment Transport and Erosion",
    journal = "Geotechnical Testing Journal",
    year = "2016",
    volume = "39",
    number = "3",
    month = "May",
    href = "\bibhref{189-kamalzare-gtj2014-kinect}",
    doi = "https://doi.org/10.1520/GTJ20140226",
    mykey = "levee"
}

2015

  • Mehrad Kamalzare, Thomas F. Zimmie, Zhongxian Chen, Christopher Stuetzle, Barbara Cutler, and W Randolph Franklin. Computer erosion modeling considering soil hydraulic conductivity. Journal of Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering, 22 June 2015.
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    BibTeX
    @article{kamalzare-jgtte-2015,
    author = "Kamalzare, Mehrad and Zimmie, Thomas F. and Chen, Zhongxian and Stuetzle, Christopher and Cutler, Barbara and Franklin, W Randolph",
    title = "Computer Erosion Modeling Considering Soil Hydraulic Conductivity",
    journal = "Journal of Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering",
    year = "2015",
    volume = "1",
    number = "1",
    month = "22 June",
    issn = "2379-8777 (Online)",
    mykey = "stuetzle levee",
    href = "\bibhref{205-kamalzare-jgtte-2015}"
}

2013

  • Mehrad Kamjaalzare, Thomas F. Zimmie, Tianning Steven Han, Matt McMullan, Barbara Cutler, and W. Randolph Franklin. Computer simulation of levee's erosion and overtopping. In The 18th international conference on soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, 743–746. Paris, France, 2–6 Sept 2013. \url http://www.issmge2013.org/.
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    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{kalamzare-icsmge-2013,
    author = "Kamjaalzare, Mehrad and Zimmie, Thomas F. and Han, Tianning Steven and McMullan, Matt and Cutler, Barbara and Franklin, W. Randolph",
    title = "Computer Simulation of Levee's Erosion and Overtopping",
    booktitle = "The 18th international conference on soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering",
    year = "2013",
    month = "2--6 Sept",
    address = "Paris, France",
    pages = "743--746",
    href = "\bibhref{167-icsmge2013-overtopping}",
    mykey = "levee",
    note = "\url{http://www.issmge2013.org/}"
}
  • Mehrad Kamalzare, Tianning Steven Han, Matt McMullan, Chris Stuetzle, Thomas F. Zimmie, Barbara Cutler, and W. Randolph Franklin. Computer simulation of levee erosion and overtopping. In Christopher Meehan, Daniel Pradel, Miguel A. Pando, and Joseph F. Labuz, editors, Proceeding: Geo-Congress 2013: Stability and Performance of Slopes and Embankments, 1851–1860. San Diego, California, USA, 3–7 Mar 2013. American Society of Civil Engineers. doi:https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784412787.186.
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    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{kalamzare-geocongress-2013,
    author = "Kamalzare, Mehrad and Han, Tianning Steven and McMullan, Matt and Stuetzle, Chris and Zimmie, Thomas F. and Cutler, Barbara and Franklin, W. Randolph",
    editor = "Meehan, Christopher and Pradel, Daniel and Pando, Miguel A. and Labuz, Joseph F.",
    title = "Computer Simulation of Levee Erosion and Overtopping",
    booktitle = "Proceeding: {Geo-Congress} 2013: Stability and Performance of Slopes and Embankments",
    publisher = "American Society of Civil Engineers",
    pages = "1851--1860",
    year = "2013",
    month = "3--7 Mar",
    address = "San Diego, California, USA",
    doi = "https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784412787.186",
    isbn = "978-0-7844-1278-7",
    href = "\bibhref{181-geocongress2013-erosion}",
    mykey = "levee stuetzle"
}

2012

  • Mehrad Kamalzare, Thomas F. Zimmie, Christopher Stuetzle, Barbara Cutler, and W. Randolph Franklin. Computer simulation of levee's erosion and overtopping. In International Symposium on Environmental Geotechnology, Energy and Global Sustainable Development. Los Angeles, California, USA, June 2012.
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    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{kalamzare-envir-2012,
    author = "Kamalzare, Mehrad and Zimmie, Thomas F. and Stuetzle, Christopher and Cutler, Barbara and Franklin, W. Randolph",
    title = "Computer simulation of levee's erosion and overtopping",
    booktitle = "International Symposium on Environmental Geotechnology, Energy and Global Sustainable Development",
    year = "2012",
    address = "Los Angeles, California, USA",
    month = "June",
    mykey = "levee stuetzle",
    href = "\bibhref{161-envirogeotech2012}"
}
  • Mehrad Kamalzare, Christopher Stuetzle, Zhongxian Chen, Thomas F. Zimmie, Barbara Cutler, and W. Randolph Franklin. Validation of erosion modeling: physical and numerical. In Geo-Congress 2012: Annual congress of the geo-institute of ASCE. Oakland, California, USA, 25–29 Mar 2012. \url http://www.geocongress2012.org/.
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    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{kalamzare-geo-2012,
    author = "Kamalzare, Mehrad and Stuetzle, Christopher and Chen, Zhongxian and Zimmie, Thomas F. and Cutler, Barbara and Franklin, W. Randolph",
    title = "Validation of erosion modeling: physical and numerical",
    booktitle = "Geo-Congress 2012: Annual congress of the geo-institute of {ASCE}",
    year = "2012",
    address = "Oakland, California, USA",
    month = "25--29 Mar",
    note = "\url{http://www.geocongress2012.org/}",
    mykey = "levee stuetzle",
    href = "\bibhref{152-geocongress2012}"
}

2011

  • Christopher Stuetzle, Barbara Cutler, Zhongxian Chen, W. Randolph Franklin, Mehrad Kamalzare, and Thomas Zimmie. Ph.d. showcase: measuring terrain distances through extracted channel networks. In 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011). Chicago USA, 1–4 Nov 2011.
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    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{stuetzle-acmgis-2011,
    author = "Stuetzle, Christopher and Cutler, Barbara and Chen, Zhongxian and Franklin, W. Randolph and Kamalzare, Mehrad and Zimmie, Thomas",
    title = "Ph.D. showcase: Measuring terrain distances through extracted channel networks",
    booktitle = "19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011)",
    year = "2011",
    month = "1--4 Nov",
    address = "Chicago USA",
    mykey = "terrain stuetzle levee",
    href = "\bibhrefpp{149-acmgis2011-stuetzle}{149-acmgis2011-stuetzle-poster.pdf}",
    customlinkposter = "https://wrfranklin.org/p/149-acmgis2011-stuetzle-poster.pdf"
}
  • Mehrad Kamalzare, Zhongxian Chen, Christopher Stuetzle, Barbara Cutler, W. Randolph Franklin, and Thomas F. Zimmie. Computer simulation of overtopping of levees. In 2011 Pam-Am CGS Geotechnical Conference: 14th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Toronto, 2–6 Oct 2011. URL: http://www.panam-cgc2011.ca/.
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    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{panam-2011,
    author = "Kamalzare, Mehrad and Chen, Zhongxian and Stuetzle, Christopher and Cutler, Barbara and Franklin, W. Randolph and Zimmie, Thomas F.",
    title = "Computer simulation of overtopping of levees",
    booktitle = "2011 {Pam-Am} {CGS} Geotechnical Conference: 14th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering",
    month = "2--6 Oct",
    year = "2011",
    address = "Toronto",
    url = "http://www.panam-cgc2011.ca/",
    mykey = "levee stuetzle",
    href = "\bibhref{146-panam-levees}"
}
  • Zhongxian Chen, Christopher S. Stuetzle, Barbara M. Cutler, Jared A. Gross, W. Randolph Franklin, and Thomas F. Zimmie. Analyses, simulations and physical modeling validation of levee and embankment erosion. In Geo-Frontiers 2011: Advances in geotechnical engineering. Dallas TX, 13–16 Mar 2011. URL: http://www.geofrontiers11.com/.
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    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{chen-geofrontiers-2011,
    author = "Chen, Zhongxian and Stuetzle, Christopher S. and Cutler, Barbara M. and Gross, Jared A. and Franklin, W. Randolph and Zimmie, Thomas F.",
    title = "Analyses, Simulations and Physical Modeling Validation of Levee and Embankment Erosion",
    booktitle = "Geo-Frontiers 2011: Advances in geotechnical engineering",
    year = "2011",
    address = "Dallas TX",
    month = "13--16 Mar",
    href = "\bibhref{141-geofrontiers2011-analyses-chen}",
    mykey = "levee stuetzle",
    url = "http://www.geofrontiers11.com/"
}

2010

  • Jared A. Gross, Christopher S. Stuetzle, Zhongxian Chen, Barbara Cutler, W. Randolph Franklin, and Thomas F. Zimmie. Simulating levee erosion with physical modeling validation. In ICSE-5 5th international conference on scour and erosion. San Francisco, 7–10 Nov 2010.
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    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{gross-icse-2010,
    author = "Gross, Jared A. and Stuetzle, Christopher S. and Chen, Zhongxian and Cutler, Barbara and Franklin, W. Randolph and Zimmie, Thomas F.",
    title = "Simulating levee erosion with physical modeling validation",
    booktitle = "{ICSE-5} 5th international conference on scour and erosion",
    year = "2010",
    address = "San Francisco",
    month = "7--10 Nov",
    customlinkslides = "https://wrfranklin.org/p/134-icse2010-gross-talk.ps",
    href = "\bibhrefpt{134-icse2010-gross}{134-icse2010-gross-talk.ps}",
    mykey = "levee stuetzle"
}
  • Zhongxian Chen, Christopher Stuetzle, Barbara Cutler, Jared Gross, W. Randolph Franklin, and Thomas Zimmie. Quantitative analysis of simulated erosion for different soils. In 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010). San Jose, CA, USA, 2–5 Nov 2010. (poster).
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    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{chen-acmgis-2010,
    author = "Chen, Zhongxian and Stuetzle, Christopher and Cutler, Barbara and Gross, Jared and Franklin, W. Randolph and Zimmie, Thomas",
    title = "Quantitative analysis of simulated erosion for different soils",
    booktitle = "18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010)",
    year = "2010",
    month = "2--5 Nov",
    address = "San Jose, CA, USA",
    href = "\bibhrefpp{137-acmgis2010-chen}{137-acmgis2010-chen-poster.pdf}",
    customlinkposter = "https://wrfranklin.org/p/137-acmgis2010-chen-poster.pdf",
    mykey = "levee stuetzle",
    note = "(poster)"
}
  • Christopher S. Stuetzle, Zhongxian Chen, Barbara Cutler, W. Randolph Franklin, Jared Gross, Katrina Perez, and Thomas Zimmie. Computer simulations and physical modelling of erosion. In 7th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2010). Zürich, 20–24 Jun 2010.
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    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{stuetzle-icpmg-2010,
    author = "Stuetzle, Christopher S. and Chen, Zhongxian and Cutler, Barbara and Franklin, W. Randolph and Gross, Jared and Perez, Katrina and Zimmie, Thomas",
    title = "Computer simulations and physical modelling of erosion",
    booktitle = "7th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics ({ICPMG} 2010)",
    year = "2010",
    address = "Zürich",
    customlinkslides = "https://wrfranklin.org/p/131-zurich2010-stuetzle-talk.pdf",
    href = "\bibhrefpt{131-zurich2010-stuetzle}{131-zurich2010-stuetzle-talk.pdf}",
    mykey = "levee stuetzle",
    month = "20--24 Jun"
}

2009

  • Christopher S. Stuetzle, Zhongxian Chen, Katrina Perez, Jared Gross, Barbara Cutler, W. Randolph Franklin, and Thomas Zimmie. Segmented height field and smoothed particle hydrodynamics in erosion simulation. In 19th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry (FWCG 2009). Tufts University, Medford MA USA, 13–14 Nov 2009. (extended abstract and talk).
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    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{stuetzle-fwcg-2009,
    author = "Stuetzle, Christopher S. and Chen, Zhongxian and Perez, Katrina and Gross, Jared and Cutler, Barbara and Franklin, W. Randolph and Zimmie, Thomas",
    title = "Segmented Height Field and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Erosion Simulation",
    booktitle = "19th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry ({FWCG} 2009)",
    month = "13--14 Nov",
    year = "2009",
    note = "(extended abstract and talk)",
    address = "Tufts University, Medford MA USA",
    customlinkslides = "https://wrfranklin.org/p/130-fwcg2009-stuetzle-talk.pdf",
    href = "\bibhrefat{130-fwcg2009-stuetzle}{130-fwcg2009-stuetzle-talk.pdf}",
    mykey = "levee hydro stuetzle"
}

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