What is it about?
To clarify the conditions for the railway ballast breaching due to overtopping flood flow, the full-scale railway with sleepers and ballast embankment had been conducted.
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Why is it important?
This study was the first experiment to clarify the condition to start breaching of ballast embankment used for the railway.
Perspectives
This work contributes to explain and predict railway vulnerability to flood on the physical basis.
Ryota Tsubaki
Nagoya Daigaku
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This page is a summary of: Railway embankment failure due to ballast layer breach caused by inundation flows, Natural Hazards, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-017-2789-3.
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