About this event
- Category
- Professional
- Organizer
- Board 2026
- Date and time
- May 11, 2026 12:35 - 13:35
- Location
- OH 111
- Participants
- 2 participants
*This Lunch Lecture will take place on MONDAY!*
Erodibility of clay
Do you want to know how waves during a storm can damage our dikes? Vera van Bergeijk from Deltares will talk about the research project ‘Erodibility of clay’. The goal is to investigate the erosion process of clay on the outer slope of dikes under wave loads and to develop formulas that can be used for the design and assessment of coastal flood defences built with local and natural materials. In this project, Deltares performed full scale physical model tests in the Delta Flume – the large scale wave flume at Deltares - with an undisturbed layer of clay and grass from sea dikes. The results are combined with numerical simulations and small-scale erosion tests to develop formulas that are currently applied in dike reinforcement projects in the Netherlands.
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