Riverbank Stabilization with Bioengineering: Failure Processes and Design Suggestions from a Scaled Physical Model

Abstract

AbstractSoil and water bioengineering structures (SWBEs) implemented for riverbank stabilization are often designed based on field feedback and expert knowledge. These structures are weaker in the years just after implementation, before vegetation ...Practical ApplicationsThis article evaluates SWBEs for riverbank stabilization in meanders based on experiments in a scaled physical model. In terms of processes, with low-cohesion banks, such as in gravel-bed rivers, scouring at bank toe drives the ...