Development of temporary flood tube technology and erosion assessment for permanent flood protection systems

洪水是一场可怕的自然灾害。洪灾的影响包括人们撤离家园，私人和公共财产受损，当地企业和服务中断，农作物受损，道路和桥梁等公共基础设施受损。越来越多的人一致认为，洪灾事件的规模、频率和严重程度正在增加，这就需要在未来采取更好的防洪方法。这项研究计划旨在开展研究，以开发新的可快速部署的防洪解决方案，以更好地保护公民和社区免受未来事件的影响，并开发方法，更好地评估极端洪水期间发生的侵略性侵蚀，这些侵蚀通常会导致粘土堤坝和桥台等关键基础设施的故障。

Flooding is a terrifying natural disaster to experience. The impacts of flooding include evacuation of people from their homes, damage to private and public properties, interruptions to local businesses and services, agricultural crop devastation and damage to public infrastructure such as roads and bridges. There is growing consensus that the magnitude and frequency and severity of flood events is increasing giving the need for better flood protection methods in the future. This research program is aimed at conducting research to develop new rapidly-deployable flood protection solutions that will better protect citizens and communities against future events as well as develop methods to better evaluate aggressive erosion that takes place during extreme floods that can often cause failure of critical infrastructure such as clay dikes and bridge abutments.