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Insights from steady overflow and wave overtopping tests
Steady overflow tests on levees, or simply overflow tests (for conciseness), are designed to test the strength of levees and levee covers under the load of a continuously overflowing discharge of water. Within the framework of the INTERREG project Polder2C’s, Flanders Hydraulics has designed and built an Overflow Generator (Vercruysse et al., 2023) for this purpose. The Overflow Generator allows to generate a controlled and homogenous discharge of water over the levee crest.
In total 25 overflow tests on Belgian and Dutch levee stretches have been executed during 3 test periods (30/10/2020 to 28/11/2020, 17/02/2021 to 31/03/2021 and 16/11/2021 to 20/12/2021). Different test goals have been addressed to understand the performance of a standard levee cover and to investigate the influence of different anomalies and/or deviations from the ‘standard’ le2vee cover. The results of the individual tests have been described in Depreiter et al. (2023a, 2023b) and are summarized and discussed in the present report.
Wave overtopping tests are designed to test strength of levees and their covers under the load of overtopping waves. At the beginning of 2022, INFRAM HYDREN conducted wave overtopping tests with the wave overtopping simulator. The wave overtopping simulator can simulate distributions of wave overtopping. The number and size of the overtopping waves in a test depend on the simulated wave overtopping discharge, the significant wave height and the storm duration.
Different test goals have been addressed to understand the performance of a standard levee cover and to investigate the influence of different anomalies and/or deviations from the ‘standard’ levee cover. The results of the individual tests have been described in Daamen et al. (2022) and are summarized and discussed in the present report.
Lees de publicatie
- Publicatiedatum
- Februari 2025
- Publicatietype
- Onderzoeksrapport
- Thema's
- Scheepvaart en havens
- Auteur(s)
- Depreiter, D., Vercruysse, J.B., Verelst, K., Peeters, P.
- Reeks
- FH reports 20_047_4
