Sentence examples for upper embankment from inspiring English sources

overloading, due to the additional elevation of the embankment that was under construction; liquefaction of the slime, due to water seeping from the slope; toe failure of the upper embankment, caused by seepage; failure of the upper embankment, due to an incorrect installation and blockage of the drainage pipes; insufficient separation between the pooled water and the embankment.

Failure: Failure of terrace areas destroying crop area due to a collapse/slip of the upper road embankment.

Affected agriculture land Type of damage: a. Failure: Failure of terrace areas destroying crop area due to a collapse/slip of the upper road embankment.

Less than a half kilometer away flows the Dorpang River, a north-bank tributary of the Brahmaputra in upper Assam, whose embankments repeatedly overflow and burst, drowning paddy fields and depositing sand and pebbles that are washed down from the distantly visible hills of Arunachal Pradesh.

They are occurring directly on the upper or lower road embankment.

Gully: In some cases, road construction affects water drainage that could cut upper or lower road embankments and form gullies.

Upper and lower roadside embankments can be affected.

Particularly the influence of the pressure boundary conditions on the upper surface of the ballast embankment is very significant.

Also, the new embankment structure has lower water content in the upper layer and smaller frost heave and thawing settlement than the latter does.

I did see, as I drove on the littered road leading to the city center, some Indian soldiers in rescue boats parked by alleys leading from a high embankment, along a flood channel, to a few upper-middle-class neighborhoods.

The upper section, above Chau Doc (Chau Phu), has strong natural levees (embankments built on either side of the river by accumulated deposits of silt) behind which are low, wide depressions.