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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"floodwall"”.
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Numerical Evaluation Of Different Retrofitting Techniques Of New Orleans Floodwalls And Implementation Of Advanced Constitutive Model In Flac3D
… to establish other failure mechanisms of the floodwalls due to hurricanes in New Orleans so that the necessary retrofitting techniques could be sought out. Depending on the failure mechanisms, two of the proposed retrofitting techniques such as "structural cap" to maintain integrity by tying …
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Immunity under the Provisions of the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act: An Analysis of Case Law in Relationship to Pending Litigation
… nationwide); Orleans Levee District (levee and floodwall maintenance); and Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (drainage 1899 to present) are key to the case study. This study traces the historical relationship between these governmental entities in connection with flood protection. The …
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Stability of Levees and Floodwalls Supported by Deep-Mixed Shear Walls: Five Case Studies in the New Orleans Area
… analyzed to evaluate the behavior of levee and floodwall systems founded on soft ground stabilized with DMM shear walls. These identified and illustrated potential failure mechanisms of these types of systems. Two-dimensional numerical stability and settlement analyses were performed for the …
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Discovering the Aesthetic of Flood Control Infrastructure
Infrastructure plays an instrumental role in the shaping of the landscape across many scales and is a critical human component within the landscape, yet these systems have tended to ignore the function of appearance and aesthetics in their design. Consequently, the relationship between our …