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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"levee failure"”.
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Effetti dell'attività della fauna sulla stabilità degli argini: Valutazione Ecoidraulica dei meccanismi di rottura arginale e tecniche di ripristino
… types of river structures to control the flow. Levees (also known as dikes), for instance, are simply man-made embankments built to keep a river from overflowing its banks. However, river flooding is a natural phenomenon so that it is not rare that rivers overflow their banks and flood the …
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The Relationship Between Graduate Counseling Students’ Meaning in Life and Their Crisis
… such as the 1999 shooting at Columbine, the levee failure in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina, the floods in the spring of 2011 in the South, and in 2011 the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power failure in Japan. The purpose of the present study was to explore if graduate counseling …
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Essays on Urban Resilience to Environmental and Health Risks
… performance metrics for U.S. flood protection levees, I find that decentralized financing of infrastructure maintenance creates a feedback loop: lower housing values and property tax revenues reduce fiscal capacity for levee maintenance, which increases levee failure risk and further depresses …
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Restoring performance : personal story, place, and memory in post-Katrina New Orleans
… and the prolonged period of trauma due to levee failure and lack of effective emergency response in 2005, New Orleanian performing artists independently and along with national artists to create post-K performances as acts of restoration. This study explores post-disaster New Orleanian …
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MPM Modeling of Internal Collapse Under Levees Caused by Underground Openings
… collapse in earth-retaining structures, such as levees, is essential for ensuring their stability and safety. This study investigates the mechanics of underground trapdoor collapse in frictional and cohesive soils, which is relevant to the behavior of water-retaining structures like levees, e.g., …