Doctorate study Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments
Suzanne van Eekelen receives her PhD on basal reinforced piled embankments on 1 July 2015.
For the doctorate, the Deltares laboratory carried out a series of experiments, reported in Van Eekelen et al., 2012a. Based on this, Van Eekelen developed the new Concentric Arches - design model for the basal reinforcement of the piled embankment (Van Eekelen et al., 2012b, Van Eekelen et al., 2013).
This model was validated with measurements from seven full-scale projects and four series of scaled model experiments (Van Eekelen et al., 2015). The calculated results are almost a perfect match with the measured results.
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The results of the doctorate study are reported in the doctorate dissertation of Van Eekelen ((2015, ISBN 978-94-6203-826-4), click here to order a free paper version) and adopted in the 2015 update of the Dutch Design Guideline for Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments (CUR226:2015, in Dutch, downloadable at www.sbrcurnet.nl).
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