...H. Brandl ABSTRACT: The paper first describes the versatile application of geosynthetics for the mitigation of floods, landslides, rockfalls, debris flows and avalanches. It focuses on dykes or flood protection dams, on geosynthetic-reinforced stabilising fills (up to 130 m height) and barrier dams...

...T. Krahn; J. Blatz; M. Alfaro; R. J. Bathurst ABSTRACT This paper presents results of large-scale direct shear testing of six interfaces with materials used to construct sandbag dykes for flood protection structures. Two additional test series using intact sandbags were also conducted to examine...