André Koelewijn

• Dike design instruments

  Netherlands, 2013

  Specialist on strength aspects of dikes
  In connection to the new approach to dike safety assessments for the Netherlands, effective from 2017, a suitable set of dike design instruments needs to be developed and applied to dike improvement works to be carried out after 2016.
  

• Flow Slide Test

  Walsoorden, Western Scheldt estuary IJkdijk Foundation, 2013

  Designer and co-executer of a full-scale test
  A first test on full scale to create flow slides, without scale effects as present in laboratory tests in large and smaller flumes. This test was executed alongside a sand bar in the Western Scheldt, close to the shipping lane, employing three vessels with multibeam and other measurement techniques. Five smaller flow slides occurred during the ten days of the test.
  

• Health monitoring of flood control infrastructure

  U.S.A, 2011

  Designer and co-executer of a full-scale test
  A first test on full scale to create flow slides, without scale effects as present in laboratory tests in large and smaller flumes. This test was executed alongside a sand bar in the Western Scheldt, close to the shipping lane, employing three vessels with multibeam and other measurement techniques. Five smaller flow slides occurred during the ten days of the test.
  

• Urban Flood

  Europe, 2010

  Advisor R&D Dike Technology
  The Urban Flood project is part of the ICT-programme of the EU funded 7th framework programme, demonstrating the possibilities of ICT ‘from sensor to end user’. The sensors were placed in levees in Amsterdam, Emmerich (Germany) and Boston (England), this had to be done at the right positions in order to obtain meaningful data.
  

• LiveDijk

  The Netherlands, 2009

  Advisor R&D Dike Technology, quality control.
  Following the IJkdijk tests (see below), the applicability of sensor technology is tested on real, ‘live’ levees. This is done on locations in the Netherlands and abroad.
  

• Robust, climate proof alternatives for levee improvement

  The Netherlands, 2009

  In a consortium comprising a multitude of parties, including landscape architects and a sociologist, feasible alternatives for levee improvement were invented for three locations. At the Streefkerk location this alternative has been inserted in the on-going selection procedure. It is under construction since 2014.

• IJkdijk

  The Netherlands, 2006

  Advisor R&D Dike Technology, coordination of all matters related to geotechnics, design, construction and execution of wave overtopping test levee, review of design of levee stability test, execution of levee stability test, design and execution of piping (underseepage) failure tests, design and execution of a multi-failure mode experiment (executed in 2012).
  The IJkdijk (‘Calibration levee’) is an international collaboration platform for testing new sensor technologies on both full scale levees tested to failure and ‘live’ levees.
  

• GeoBrain

  The Netherlands, 2002

  Initiator, innovator and project leader.
  The GeoBrain development aims at the incorporation of practical experience in geotechnical design, which may be achieved by use of artificial intelligence techniques and visualisation methods to extract and present otherwise inaccessable geotechnical information.
  Pilot projects related to flood embankments, soil remediation and foundation engineering.
  

• Bergambacht River Levee Uplift Failure Test

  The Netherlands, 2000

  Principal designer.
  Design, execution, analysis and evaluation of a full scale field test at Bergambacht (near Rotterdam): uplift-induced stability failure of an eight centuries old river embankment.
  

• Design and evaluation of embankments on soft soils

  The Netherlands, 1999

  Assistant, project leader, advisor, supervisor, auditor.
  Stability, seepage and settlement calculations for design, evaluation and reinforcement of various larger and smaller levees and (rail)road embankments on soft deposits in the Netherlands.

• Numerical Analysis of Soft Soil Tunnelling

  A.R. Koelewijn (2001), Ph.D. thesis, TU Delft. ISBN 90-9014355-6.

• The Practical Value of Slope Stability Models

  André R. Koelewijn (2002), In: ‘Learned and Applied – Soil Mechanics out of Delft’, Frans B.J. Barends & Paola M.P.C. Steijger (eds), pp. 107-114. Lisse: Balkema.

• Monitoring of the test on the dike at Bergambacht: design and practice

  A.R. Koelewijn & M.A. Van (2003), Proc. 13th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Prague, August, Volume 1, pp. 755-760.

• Uplift Phenomenon: Model, Validation, and Design

  M.A. Van, A.R. Koelewijn & F.B.J. Barends (2005), Int. J. Geomechanics 5(2):98-106.

• Neural networks for the determination of embankment safety

  André R. Koelewijn (2007), Proc. 10th International Symposium on Numerical Models in Geomechanics – NUMOG X, G.N. Pande & S. Pietruszczak (eds), Rhodes, April, pp. 659-664. London: Taylor & Francis.

• Space reservation required for flood embankments in urban areas

  André R. Koelewijn & Micheline W.A. Hounjet (2007), Proc. 14th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, V. Cuéllar et al. (eds), Madrid, September, pp. 845-849. Rotterdam: Millpress.

• GeoBrain: Dutch feasibility database for installing sheet pile walls

  A.R. Koelewijn & A.M.J. Mens (2008), 6th Int. Conf. on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, Arlington, August, 6 pp. Rolla: Missouri University of Science and Technology.

• IJkdijk Full Scale Underseepage Erosion (Piping) Test: Evaluation of Innovative Sensor Technology

  G. de Vries, A.R. Koelewijn & V. Hopman (2010), Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on Scour and Erosion, S.E. Burns et al. (eds), Geotechnical Special Publication no. 210, San Francisco, November, pp. 649-657. ASCE

• Real-time monitoring system and advanced characterization technique for civil infrastructure health monitoring

  V. Bennett, T. Abdoun, M. Zeghal, A. Koelewijn, M. Barendse & R. Dobry (2011), Advances in Civil Engineering, volume 2011, article ID 870383, 12 pp. Hindawi Publishing.

• Failure of a trial embankment on peat at Booneschans, The Netherlands

  C. Zwanenburg, E.J. den Haan, G.A.M. Kruse & A.R. Koelewijn (2012), ‘’, Géotechnique 62(6):479-490. London: Institute of Civil Engineers.

• Full-scale field validation of innovative dike monitoring systems

  A.R. Koelewijn, G. de Vries & H. van Lottum (2013), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, 2-6 September, pp. 931-934.

• Full-scale testing of piping prevention measures: Three tests at the IJkdijk

  A.R. Koelewijn, G. de Vries, H. van Lottum, U. Förster, V.M. van Beek & A. Bezuijen (2014), 8th International Conference on Physical modelling in Geotechnics, Perth, 14-17 January, pp. 891-897, CRC Press.

• 4-D imaging of seepage in earthen embankments with time-lapse inversion of self-potential data constrained by acoustic emissions localization

  J.B. Rittgers, A. Revil, T. Planes, M.A. Mooney & A.R. Koelewijn (2015), Geophysical Journal International 200(2):758-772. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  
  Zeitabhängigkeit bei rückschreitender Erosion unterhalb von Deichen, 2015, André Koelewijn & Ulrich Förster, 38. Dresdner Wasserbaukolloquium, Dresden, 5-6 March, 10 pp.
  

• A systematic approach to health monitoring of dams, dikes and levees

  A.R. Koelewijn & F.P.W. van den Berg (2015), 16th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 13-17 September, Edinburgh, 6 pp.

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