La construction d’un ouvrage hydraulique commence par le choix des matériaux devant le constituer. Les sols employés pour la construction d’ouvrages hydrauliques en terre peuvent être constitués de matériaux perméables tels que les sables ou les graves ou de matériaux peu perméables tels que les argiles ou les limons. En fonction de la disponibilité des matériaux à proximité du chantier, il est alors possible d’opter pour différents types d’ouvrages (ouvrages homogènes, à noyau ou zonés). Dans tous les cas, le coût d’un ouvrage tel qu’une digue est d’autant moins élevé que les sols utilisés pour sa construction sont issus de zones proches du chantier. Lorsque des sols sont disponibles en quantité suffisante à proximité du chantier mais que leur utilisation soit risquée pour la stabilité de l’ouvrage, il peut être opportun de chercher à modifier leurs caractéristiques pour qu’ils puissent être utilisés dans les mêmes conditions de sécurité que les matériaux traditionnels. C’est autour de cette problématique que ce travail de thèse a vu le jour. En particulier, ce travail vise à étudier les améliorations apportées par un traitement à la chaux appliqué sur un sol grossier soumis à un écoulement interne afin de le stabiliser contre le phénomène de l’érosion interne. La compréhension des améliorations apportées a nécessité la mise en place d’une analyse multicritère au travers d’essais dédiées. Dans la première partie de la thèse, nous nous sommes employés à développer un dispositif d’essais permettant de réaliser des essais d’érosion interne sur ce type de sol. Ce dispositif nous a permis de réaliser une étude phénoménologique sur le comportement du sol considéré, soumis à des écoulements, en fonction du sens de l’écoulement et de l’application ou pas du traitement. Par la suite une étude paramétrique a été réalisée afin de mettre en évidence l’influence des paramètres principaux : dosage de traitement, temps de cure, hauteur de l’éprouvette et surcharge. Dans une seconde partie, nous nous sommes intéressés à l’influence de l’immersion des échantillons dans l’eau sur leur stabilité. A cet effet, l’essai de dispersion, adapté à ce type de sol, a pu être utilisé et exploité. Des essais complémentaires de résistance à la compression simple ont été réalisés afin d’estimer la perte de résistance après immersion. Ce qui nous a poussés à examiner l’existence de corrélations entre les propriétés à l’érosion et les propriétés mécaniques du sol traité / The construction of a hydraulic structure starts with the selection of the materials that will constitute it. The soils used in the construction of hydraulic earthen structures may be made of permeable materials such as sands or low permeability materials such as clay or silt. Depending on the availability of materials near the site, it is possible to choose different types of structures (homogeneous structures, core or zoned). In all cases, the cost of such a structure as a dike is even lower than the soils used for its construction come from areas near the site. When soils are sufficiently available near the construction site, but their use is risky for the stability of the structure, it may be appropriate to seek to modify their characteristics so they can be used in the same security conditions than traditional materials. It is around this issue that this thesis was born. More particularly, this research aims to study the improvements made by a lime treatment on a coarse soil subjected to internal flow to stabilize against the phenomenon of internal erosion. Understanding improvements requires the establishment of a multi-criteria analysis through dedicated tests. In the first part, we are interested in developing a testing device for performing internal erosion tests on this type of soil. This device has enabled us to realize a phenomenological study of the phenomena observed with the direction of flow and the presence or not of the treatment. Subsequently a parametric study was conducted to highlight the influence of the main parameters: treatment dosage, treatment time, height of the specimen and overload. In the second part, we studied the influence of immersion samples in water for this purpose the crumb test test was adapted for this type of soil. Additional unconfined compression tests were conducted to estimate the loss of strength after immersion. This allowed us to try couplings between the properties to erosion and soil treated mechanical properties

A new ‘transparent soil permeameter’ has been developed to study the mechanisms occurring during internal erosion in filter materials for embankment dams. Internal erosion or suffusion is the process where fine particles are removed from a matrix of coarse grains by seepage of water, and which ultimately leads to instabilities within the soil. The laboratory-based experiments in this thesis utilises a novel approach where up-scaled glass particles are used in place of soil particles, and optically matched oil is used in place of water. Rhodamine dye in the oil allows the fluid to fluoresce brightly when a sheet of laser light is shone through the sample, while the glass particles appear as dark shadows within the plane of the laser sheet. This technique is known as Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) and enables a two-dimensional "slice" or plane of particles and fluid to be viewed inside the permeameter, away from the permeameter walls. During a test, fluid is passed through the solid matrix in upward flow, with the flow rate (therefore hydraulic gradient) being increased in stages until internal erosion or bulk movement of the entire assembly develops and progresses. A high speed camera captures images of the two-dimensional plane over the duration of a test, which are then analysed using Image Pro and ImageJ processing software. Until now, the fundamental mechanisms that lead to internal erosion have been rather speculative, as there has been no way to physically observe the processes behind the initiation and continued movement of particles. This visualisation experiment allows internal erosion mechanisms to be studied away from permeameter walls where boundary effects do not occur. The technique was validated by confirming Darcy’s (1856) law of laminar flow, and Terzaghi’s (1925) theoretical critical hydraulic gradient for an upward flow through materials with no top stress. Results of replicated materials tested by Skempton and Brogan (1994) and Fannin and Moffat (2006) also confirm this methodology to be valid by way of material behaviour, permeability and the alpha factor (Skempton & Brogan 1994). An assessment to predict the stability of soils was carried out using the Kenney and Lau (1985), Kezdi (1979), Burenkova (1993), Wan and Fell (2008) and Istomina (1957) approaches, with the Kenny and Lau and Kezdi methods proving to be the most robust across the particle size distributions tested. In the tests, unstable materials showed a migration of fine grains under hydraulic gradients as low as ic = 0.25, while stable materials showed little movement of particles, and eventually failed by heave. Image processing using Image Pro and ImageJ were successful in producing quantitative results, however with further enhancements to the test equipment and methodology, these could be improved upon. The testing technique developed in this thesis has proven to be successful in the study of internal erosion of filter materials. The technique proves that optically matched glass and oil can behave similarly to soil and water materials as used in previous laboratory testing, and that the PLIF technique and image capturing has merit in understanding the mechanisms occurring during internal erosion processes.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第20324号 / 工博第4261号 / 新制||工||1660(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科社会基盤工学専攻 / (主査)教授 木村 亮, 教授 三村 衛, 准教授 木元 小百合 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DFAM

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京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第23489号 / 工博第4901号 / 新制||工||1766(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科都市社会工学専攻 / (主査)教授 岸田 潔, 教授 木村 亮, 准教授 音田 慎一郎 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DFAM

<p>Dams that comprise broadly and widely graded glacial materials, such as moraines, have been found to be susceptible to internal erosion, perhaps more than dams of other soil types. Internal erosion washes out fine-grained particles from the filling material; the erosion occurs within the material itself or at an interface to another dam zone, depending on the mode of initiation. Whether or not internal erosion proceeds depend on the adequacy of the filter material. If internal erosion is allowed, it may manifest itself as sinkholes on the crest, increased leakage and muddy seepage once it surfaces, which here is called surfacing internal erosion (i.e. internal erosion in the excessive erosion or continuation phase). In spite of significant developments since the 1980s in the field of internal erosion assessment, the validity of methods developed by others on broadly graded materials are still less clear because most available criteria are based on tests of narrowly graded granular soils. This thesis specifically addresses dams that are composed of broadly graded glacial soils and investigates typical indicators, signs and behaviors of internal erosion prone dams. Based on a review of 90+ existing moraine core dams, which are located mainly in Scandinavia as well as North America and Australia/New Zealand, this thesis will show that not only the filter’s coarseness needs to be reviewed when assessing the potential for internal erosion to surface (i.e., erosion in the excessive or continuing phase); in addition, the grading stability of the filter and the core material as well as non-homogeneities that are caused by filter segregation need to be studied. Cross-referencing between these aspects improves the assessment of potential for internal erosion in dams of broadly graded soils and furthermore it provides aid-to-judgment.</p> / QC 20100715

Dams that comprise broadly and widely graded glacial materials, such as moraines, have been found to be susceptible to internal erosion, perhaps more than dams of other soil types. Internal erosion washes out fine-grained particles from the filling material; the erosion occurs within the material itself or at an interface to another dam zone, depending on the mode of initiation. Whether or not internal erosion proceeds depend on the adequacy of the filter material. If internal erosion is allowed, it may manifest itself as sinkholes on the crest, increased leakage and muddy seepage once it surfaces, which here is called surfacing internal erosion (i.e. internal erosion in the excessive erosion or continuation phase). In spite of significant developments since the 1980s in the field of internal erosion assessment, the validity of methods developed by others on broadly graded materials are still less clear because most available criteria are based on tests of narrowly graded granular soils. This thesis specifically addresses dams that are composed of broadly graded glacial soils and investigates typical indicators, signs and behaviors of internal erosion prone dams. Based on a review of 90+ existing moraine core dams, which are located mainly in Scandinavia as well as North America and Australia/New Zealand, this thesis will show that not only the filter’s coarseness needs to be reviewed when assessing the potential for internal erosion to surface (i.e., erosion in the excessive or continuing phase); in addition, the grading stability of the filter and the core material as well as non-homogeneities that are caused by filter segregation need to be studied. Cross-referencing between these aspects improves the assessment of potential for internal erosion in dams of broadly graded soils and furthermore it provides aid-to-judgment. / QC 20100715

Master of Science / Department of Computing and Information Sciences / Mitchell L. Neilsen / In recent years, headline news has been overwhelmed with stories about dam and levee failures including the 2005 levee breaches in New Orleans and the 2006 Kaloko Damfailure in Hawaii that resulted in seven deaths. Since 2000, state and federal agencies have reported 92 dam failures in the United States to the National Performance of Dams Program. Incidents such as these have brought both national and worldwide attention to the need for improved flood warning systems and breach prediction tools for dam embankment and levee failures. (G. J. Hanson, 2010) IESIMBA 2012 is an upgraded version of SIMBA, which has been upgraded from VB6 to C#.NET. The Microsoft Windows-based SIMplified Breach Analysis software (SIMBA) was developed by the USDA Agricultural Research Service in cooperation with Kansas State University. The software was developed for the purpose of analyzing internal erosion, earth embankment breach test data and extending the understanding of the underlying physical processes of breach of an overtopped earth embankment. It is a research tool that is modified routinely to test the sensitivity of the output to various sub-models and assumptions. This software is a test version for use in validation testing of the simplified breach model based on stress and mass failure driven headcut movement. It runs under Microsoft Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, NT, XP, or Vista. The following Input Screens are used to guide the user through development of input data sets.  Model Properties , Dam Profile , Structure Table, Spillway Rating and Hydrograph Data After an input data set has been entered, the data is saved and simulation can be performed on the data stored in memory at any time by selecting Build option. Input and output files are stored in a fixed ASCII text format. The results of the simulation can be viewed in graphical format which are of interest to the researchers at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater by selecting View option.

Ce travail de thèse porte sur l'étude des mécanismes de blocage d'un écoulement d'eau dans un milieu granulaire par injection d'un produit de colmatage, et s'inscrit plus généralement dans la problématique de l'érosion interne des sols (Projet National ERINOH). Cette recherche, à dominante expérimentale, s'appuie sur une modélisation physique unidimensionnelle. Pour cela, une conduite d'écoulement de 18 cm de diamètre intérieur et 300 cm de longueur maximale, constituée par plusieurs tronçons de 50 cm de longueur assemblés, a été développée. Celle-ci est tout d'abord remplie du matériau granulaire perméable à étudier ; on établit ensuite un écoulement d'eau permanent à pression imposée à l'amont ; finalement on vient injecter localement un produit de colmatage pour essayer de bloquer l'écoulement. Le dispositif est équipé de plusieurs capteurs de pression, de débitmètres, d'un turbidimètre afin de mettre en évidence les paramètres significatifs qui contrôlent le processus de blocage. Les paramètres expérimentaux sont les caractéristiques du milieu granulaire (type de sol, conductivité hydraulique, état de compacité…), les caractéristiques de l'écoulement (vitesses, gradients hydrauliques, régime de l'écoulement…), les propriétés rhéologiques du coulis d'injection (densité, viscosité, seuil de cisaillement…) et la technique d'injection associée. Sur la base des résultats obtenus, on propose des critères de blocage de l'écoulement combinant ces derniers paramètres sous une forme suffisamment simple, utilisable dans la pratique, pour répondre à la demande des industriels impliqués dans le projet de recherche ERINOH, qui sont confrontés à ces pathologies / The present PhD thesis focuses on the mechanisms of blocking permanent water flow through a granular soil by injection of a grout. This work is part of the more general problem of internal erosion of soils (French National Project ERINOH). This research, mainly experimental, is based on a one-dimensional physical modelling. For this, a new original prototype setup, allowing to generate permanent flow in a 18 cm inner diameter and 3 m long plexiglas pipe, has been developed. It is first filled with a highly permeable granular medium, then permanent flow of water is generated at controlled upstream pressure, and finally the grout is injected locally in order to try to block the water flow. The set-up is equipped with multiple pressure sensors, flowmeters, a turbidimeter to monitor the significant parameters that control the clogging process. The experimental parameters are the characteristics of the granular medium (soil type, hydraulic conductivity, density ...), the flow characteristics (flow rate, hydraulic gradient, flow regime ...), the rheological properties of the grout (density, viscosity, yield stress ...) and the associated injection technique. Based on the results obtained, clogging criteria are proposed, as a function of the parameters involved, in a simple form for use in practice.Key-words: internal erosion, clogging, injection, grout, bentonite, yield stress, viscosity.

The objective of this study is to provide a better understanding of suffusion characteristics of glacial soils and to present a simple yet reliable assessment procedure for determination of suffusion in the laboratory.Internal erosion by suffusion occurs in the core of an embankment dam when the ability of the soil to resist seepage forces is exceeded and voids are large enough to allow the transport of fine particles through the pores. Soils susceptible to suffusion are described as internally unstable. dams with core of broadly graded glacial moraines (tills) exhibit signs of internal erosion to a larger extent than dams constructed with other types of materials.The Suffusion behavior of glacial soils has been investigated through two different permeameter suffusion test have been employed, small scale permeameter and big scale permeameter. Details of the equipment along with its calibration, testing and sampling procedures are provided.The testing program were performed 9 test with different compaction degree in small scale permeameter and 2 test in big permeameter on internally stable categories of till soil. The categories are defined based on the soil grain size distribution and according to the methods developed by Kenney &amp; Lau and Burenkova.Layers are identified with suffusion if the post-test gradation curve exhibit changes in distribution compared to the initial condition and also the tests revealed that the effect of grain size distribution and relative degree of compaction on the internal erosion susceptibility of glacial till soils at different hydraulic gradients