Levees and Dams: Advances in Geophysical Monitoring and Characterization

This book aims to inform policy-makers, engineers and earth scientists about the current and emerging role of geophysics in addressing environmental processes, assessments, and policy directions related to new and existing dams and levees. Until now geophysics has concentrated on characterization and remediation of dams and levees, but now the field is changing our understanding on the influence of natural processes (e.g., floods, dissolution) and human activities in the design, and management of these structures. This monograph includes advances in the following fields of Dams and Levees studies: New insights from small and mid-sized laboratory experiments Integrated methods electromagnetic, seismic, potential methods Inverse modeling approaches Statistical considerations Monitoring of processes attending aging structures Hazard monitoring Risk Analysis . Preface . Introduction to the Monograph . Geophysical Survey at Martis Dam Creek, USA . Geophysical Survey at Big Nance Dam, USA . Geophysical Imaging of dams and levees in NE USA . Integrated geophysical methods for levee safety assessment in Japan- Past, rpesent and future . Levee safety program in the US . Soil-type estimation using an integrated geophysical Approach in New Orleans Levees . 3D Electrical Resistivity Tomography applied to levees and dams, Italy . Geophysical evaluation of US levees for recertification . AIRBORNE Em surveying of levees . Heterogeneity detection in Japanese levees using combined geophysical methods . Instrumentation of levees for automated piping detection, Netherlands . Geophysics and Engineering cooperation