Hudiksvall - an interesting embankment failure that caused a train ...
WEBOn Monday 7 August 2023, a regional train was derailed close to the town of Hudiksvall in Sweden as a consequence of an embankment failure. The event occurred during heavy rainfall associated...
Train derails and roads flood as Sweden, Norway hit by torrential …
WEBAug 8, 2023 · A train carrying more than 100 passengers derailed in eastern Sweden as the rain partly washed away the railway embankment, injuring three people who were taken to hospital, police said.
Sweden, Norway issue red alerts as heavy rain derails train, floods ...
WEBAug 7, 2023 · A train carrying more than 100 passengers derailed in eastern Sweden on Monday as the rain partly washed away the railway embankment, injuring three people who were taken to hospital, police said.
Train derailed in Sweden after embankment gets washed away …
WEBIn Sweden, a passenger train carrying about 120 people got derailed in Hudiksvall, after the embankment that it was travelling on got washed away. Three people were injured in the event and had to be taken to the hospital.
Assessing internal erosion - International Water Power
WEBJan 10, 2008 · The typical Swedish embankment dam is a zoned embankment with a vertical and centrally placed moraine (till) core, with filters of glacifluvial, sand and gravel, and shoulders (support fills) of earth or rockfill (Figure 1).
Stormy weather across northern Europe kills at least 1 person, idles ...
WEBAug 7, 2023 · Three people had been taken to hospital in Sweden when two of the train’s passenger cars went off the tracks in Hudiksvall, a town 280 kilometers (174 miles) north of Stockholm, police said. The derailment happened because ”the embankment has been undermined by the heavy rain and landslides,“ they said, adding that the extent of their ...
Train With 100 Onboard Derails After Floods Wash Away Embankment In Sweden
WEBAug 8, 2023 · A train carrying more than 100 passengers derailed in eastern Sweden as the rain partly washed away the railway embankment, injuring three people who were taken to hospital, police said.
Geosynthetic-reinforced pile-supported embankments: state of …
WEBApr 15, 2020 · A high embankment with crushed stone fill requires a lower percentage coverage than a low embankment with gravel fill. Holtz and Massarsch (1976) reported the first use of geosynthetic reinforcement in pile-supported embankments in Sweden in 1975.
WEBAmong the most important developments were the well-known and still commonly used Swedish Circular Arc method for determining slope stability, undisturbed soil sampling, and laboratory shear testing. The problems of embankment stability were now on their way to engineering solutions.
WEBMore than 70 existing embankment dams are reviewed in this paper, predominately Swedish glacial moraine core dams, with objective to see if there are indicators in dams with performance history of internal erosion.