Building on quicksand: the foundations of the Eastern Scheldt barrier |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Rijkswaterstaat, Rotterdam, Netherlands;2. Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Flood Risk, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;3. Netherlands Business Support Office, Houston, TX, United States;1. Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan;2. Hydraulic Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan;4. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan;5. International Maritime Dredging Consultants, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | The long and successful experience of the Dutch in recovering land from the sea and protecting it from inundation needs no emphasis. Even their ingenuity in civil engineering has been challenged, however, in the design and construction of a storm-surge barrier across the Eastern Scheldt, for it has virtually to be built on quicksand. This article describes the way in which the problem has been solved by laying huge prefabricated filter mattresses on the seabed to provide a secure foundation against the assaults of the highest tides. |
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