Aurelian Florentin Draghia1, Radu Drobot1, Maria Ilinca Cheveresan1 1 Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania drobot@utcb.ro Abstract During medium floods (1% probability of exceedance) the lower area of Galati town is in danger to be flooded. The protection dykes are designed to 100 years return period, but due to the long duration of the […]

Maria Cheveresan Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania maria.alexandrescu@utcb.ro   Abstract  The floods from recent years are becoming more and more severe causing death of people and material losses. The floods with the probability of excedance of 1% are more frequent, phenomena due mainly to the climate change. In this context the lack of […]

Maria Cheveresan 1, Nicolai Sirbu 1, Dan Stematiu 1, Radu Drobot 1 1 Technical University of Civil Engineering from Bucharest, Romania Abstract: Between 1990 and 2001 several phenomena were observed at the Dridu dam structure like longitudinal cracks, local sliding located in the downstream slope of the contour dyke, entrapment of sandy material at some […]