February 11, 2025
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern
AGENDA:
- Introduction to Seepage Technology Timeline
- Periods of technology evolution
- Representative seepage failure case histories
- Notable seepage topics
- Early developments (Darcy’s law, critical gradient, filter criteria, flow nets, etc.)
- Zoned Embankments
- Permeability
- Internally unstable gradings
- Embankment cracking
- Seepage failure mechanisms
- 2D vs. 3D seepage effects
- Q&A Session 1
- Embankment Cracking
- Notable early case histories
- Empirical guidelines
- Numerical modeling
- Hydraulic fracturing
- Filter Evaluation/Design
- Early criteria
- SCS research – No erosion filter boundary
- Foster/Fell – Continuing erosion filter boundary
- Q&A Session 2
- Estimating Seepage Risks
- Closing
