Articles | Volume 22, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1491-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1491-2018
Research article
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28 Feb 2018
Research article |  | 28 Feb 2018

Effectiveness of distributed temperature measurements for early detection of piping in river embankments

Silvia Bersan, André R. Koelewijn, and Paolo Simonini

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (24 May 2017) by Hannah Cloke
AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (07 Aug 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Aug 2017) by Hannah Cloke
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (15 Sep 2017)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by Editor) (26 Sep 2017) by Hannah Cloke
AR by Silvia Bersan on behalf of the Authors (06 Oct 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (20 Oct 2017) by Hannah Cloke
AR by Silvia Bersan on behalf of the Authors (13 Nov 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (08 Dec 2017) by Hannah Cloke
AR by Silvia Bersan on behalf of the Authors (18 Dec 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (22 Dec 2017) by Hannah Cloke
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Short summary
Backward erosion piping is the cause of a significant percentage of failures and incidents involving dams and river embankments. In the past 20 years fibre-optic Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) has proved to be effective for the detection of leakages and internal erosion in dams. This work investigates the effectiveness of DTS for monitoring backward erosion piping in river embankments. Data from a large-scale piping test performed on an instrumented dike are presented and discussed.