Geo-Congress 2020
Effect of Compound Flooding on Performance of Earthen Levees
Publication: Geo-Congress 2020: Engineering, Monitoring, and Management of Geotechnical Infrastructure (GSP 316)
ABSTRACT
Earthen levees protecting coastal regions can be exposed to compound flooding induced by multiple drivers such as coastal water level, river discharge, and precipitation. However, the majority of flood hazard analyses consider only one flood driver at a time. This study numerically investigates the performance of an earthen levee in Sherman Island, Sacramento, CA, under compound flooding induced by fluvial and pluvial flooding. A finite element model is built for fully coupled 3D stress-flow simulations of the levee. The finite element model is then used to simulate the hydro-mechanical response of the levee under different flood scenarios. Fluvial flood hydrographs for different scenarios are obtained using a bivariate extreme analysis of peak river discharge and peak ocean level while accounting for the significance of correlation between these two variables. Pluvial flooding is characterized using intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves of extreme precipitations for the study area. The fluvial and pluvial flood patterns for different recurrence intervals are used in the finite element model to simulate the hydro-mechanical response of the levee. Results show that considering compound flooding leads to 8.7% and 18.6% reduction in the factor of safety for 2 and 50-year recurrence intervals, respectively.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. CMMI-1634748 and CMMI-1635797.
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Geo-Congress 2020: Engineering, Monitoring, and Management of Geotechnical Infrastructure (GSP 316)
Pages: 707 - 716
Editors: James P. Hambleton, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Roman Makhnenko, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Aaron S. Budge, Ph.D., Minnesota State University, Mankato
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8279-7
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© 2020 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Feb 21, 2020
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Analysis (by type)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Finite element method
- Floods
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulic structures
- Hydrologic engineering
- Levees and dikes
- Methodology (by type)
- Models (by type)
- Numerical analysis
- Numerical methods
- Sea water
- Simulation models
- Three-dimensional models
- Water (by type)
- Water and water resources
- Water discharge
- Water management
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