The region of Emilia Romagna was affected by extreme weather events that caused extensive damage to embankments and significant flooding on May 2023. The embankments were quickly repaired under emergency conditions, but the current level of safety needs to be assessed. This paper illustrates the analyses carried out on the banks, on the hydraulic left and right banks, of the Sillaro river. Specifically, the analyses focus on the comparison between the safety levels before and after the flood events of May 2023 and the subsequent interventions on the sections near Villa Serraglio (RA). These evaluations consist on verifying that the embankment is not subject to global instability, to rapid drawdown, to the phenomenon of backward erosion piping and to contact erosion between soils of different particle size. In order to achieve this, it was necessary to design proper geotechnical models to investigate the correct filtration and global stability of the escarpments. These models were integrated by geotechnical investigations, including the in situ and laboratory tests run in 2020 and 2024. Moreover, the phenomenon of contact erosion at the interfaces between the embankment body finer-grained material, which delimit the watercourse itself, and the cliff coarse material, located in the lower part of the river-side escarpment, was studied in greater detail. In conclusion, possible interventions meant to improve the conditions of the embankments are here discussed taking into account previous research in this field.
A maggio 2023 la regione Emilia Romagna è stata interessata da eventi metereologici estremi che hanno portato a pensati danni ai rilevati arginali e significative inondazioni. I rilevati sono stati rapidamente riparati in condizioni di somma urgenza, ma è necessario valutare l’attuale livello di sicurezza. Il presente elaborato illustra le analisi condotte in corrispondenza degli argini, in sinistra e destra idraulica, del fiume Sillaro, ponendo l’attenzione a confrontare i livelli di sicurezza prima degli eventi alluvionali di maggio 2023 e a seguito degli stessi e della successiva esecuzione degli interventi lungo i tratti in località di Villa Serraglio (RA). Tali valutazioni consistono nel verificare che l’argine non sia soggetto a instabilità globale delle scarpate, allo svaso rapido, al fenomeno dell’erosione per piping e all’erosione da contatto tra i terreni di granulometria diversa presenti in sito. Allo scopo di ottenere quanto precedentemente descritto è stata necessaria la costruzione di opportuni modelli geotecnici di filtrazione e stabilità globale delle scarpate con l’ausilio di apposite indagini geotecniche, comprendenti le prove in situ e di laboratorio delle campagne indagini del 2020 e quelle integrative del 2024. Successivamente si è studiato più approfonditamente il fenomeno dell’erosione da contatto in corrispondenza delle interfacce tra il materiale avente granulometria più fine, costituente il rilevato arginale, e il materiale grossolano costituente la scogliera situata nella parte inferiore della scarpata lato fiume dei suddetti argini, i quali delimitano il corso d’acqua stesso. In conclusione, si descrivono i possibili interventi migliorativi ipotizzati a valle degli studi sopra descritti.
Analisi post-alluvione del livello di sicurezza degli argini del fiume Sillaro: il caso studio di Villa Serraglio (RA)
LENZI, MARCO
2023/2024
Abstract
The region of Emilia Romagna was affected by extreme weather events that caused extensive damage to embankments and significant flooding on May 2023. The embankments were quickly repaired under emergency conditions, but the current level of safety needs to be assessed. This paper illustrates the analyses carried out on the banks, on the hydraulic left and right banks, of the Sillaro river. Specifically, the analyses focus on the comparison between the safety levels before and after the flood events of May 2023 and the subsequent interventions on the sections near Villa Serraglio (RA). These evaluations consist on verifying that the embankment is not subject to global instability, to rapid drawdown, to the phenomenon of backward erosion piping and to contact erosion between soils of different particle size. In order to achieve this, it was necessary to design proper geotechnical models to investigate the correct filtration and global stability of the escarpments. These models were integrated by geotechnical investigations, including the in situ and laboratory tests run in 2020 and 2024. Moreover, the phenomenon of contact erosion at the interfaces between the embankment body finer-grained material, which delimit the watercourse itself, and the cliff coarse material, located in the lower part of the river-side escarpment, was studied in greater detail. In conclusion, possible interventions meant to improve the conditions of the embankments are here discussed taking into account previous research in this field.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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