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Modelling Initiation Stage of Backward Erosion Piping through Analytical Models
- Guanyong Luo,
- John D. Rice,
- Sige Peng,
- Hong Cao,
- Hong Pan and
- Guoyuan Xu
Backward erosion piping, which is one of the leading causes of levee and dam failures, is more likely to occur when a flow is concentrated on a defect with an overlying low-permeability layer and a shallow erosion channel forming and progressing towa...