Natural phenomena in mountains such as debris-flows and torrent floods put people and infrastructures at risk with dramatic consequences because of the intensity and suddenness of their floods. In this context, measures and emergency evacuation are often difficult to envisage. To limit risks, protection works against flash floods have therefore an essential role to reduce both the causes (active structural measures) and effects or consequences (passive structural measures) of sediment production.
Design of Protection Works Against Torrent Floods explores the main features of the three leading types of protection works to help you learn how to design them. It is dedicated to technicians, engineers, risk manager who are in charge of structures design and/or management. It presents a technical and integrated overview of the design process but describes the different points that make those protection works so specific in comparison with classical civil engineering works such as buildings, bridges and roads. This book emphasizes the main issues of their structural and functional design and offers the keys to dedicated and more specialized literature. It combines a description of theoretical calculation methods and also feedback for real behavior of works with examples of observed failures.
- Featuring a comparison of the three main types of protection works; Torrent checkdams, sediment dams and torrential dykes
- Presents mathematical examples for practical guidance on the dedicated editor website
- Provides worked examples of observed protection works failures
Papildus informācija
Explores the main types of protection works and how to design them through a technical, comprehensive, and integrated overview
1. Context of torrential risks
2. Functional design
3. Structural design
4. Protection works management
5. Conclusion
Jean-Marc Tacnet (Irstea-ETNA) is a senior researcher who received two Master Engineering Degrees (ENGEES, ENGREF), a M.Sc. degree in Applied Computer Science (Grenoble University) and a PhD thesis (ENSMSE) in Environmental Engineering Sciences. His activities focus on integrated risk management and expert assessment processes applied to natural phenomena in mountains. He is involved in applied research dealing with decision support systems for hazard, risk assessment but also risk reduction measures effectiveness analysis in a context of imperfect information and uncertainty. His disciplinary fields concern multi-criteria decision-making, information fusion, artificial intelligence (fuzzy sets, possibility, belief function theories), uncertainty analysis, and software engineerin. He manages a research team called DARE (Decision-Aid, Risk ans Expertise- ADRET in French). Simon Carladous received his Master Engineering Degree from ENGEES, France (2005) and Master of Sciences in Natural Risks Management from Montpellier University, France (2013). He has 8 years experience in program and project management in different fields, namely drinking and wastewater management, natural hazards management in mountains (torrential floods, avalanches, rockfalls). He is currently undertaking his PhD thesis at Irstea in natural hazards management fields to develop decision-aid methods, taking into account information quality. Guillaume Piton is currently undertaking his PhD in the area of torrential hydraulics at IRSTEA, Grenoble. From 2009 to 2013, he held the position of hydraulics engineer at ARTELIA ( ex - SOGREAH ), with a multidisciplinary study of hydraulic works including hydrology, hydraulic modeling, project design, site preparation, implementation monitoring and impact assessment. His research interests include torrential hydraulics, Sediment transport, Design works in rivers and physical modeling.
