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    A revetment in stream restoration, river engineering or coastal engineering is a facing of impact-resistant material (such as stone, concrete, sandbags...
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    A revetment, in military aviation, is a parking area for one or more aircraft that is surrounded by blast walls on three sides. These walls are as much...
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  • Revetment may refer to: Revetment, a sloping structure used in erosion control (at a riverbank or coastline) or as part of military fortifications Revetment...
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    Dynamic revetments, also known as "cobble berms" or "dynamic cobble berm revetments", use gravel or cobble-sized rocks to mimic a natural cobble storm...
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    from landfill and by the late 1930s was protected by a seawall or revetment. The revetment was designed and constructed by Chicago Park District engineers...
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    vegetation or installing stones, boulders, weighted matting, or concrete revetments. Separate ditches or drainage tiles are constructed to ensure that the...
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    with caissons), or by using a revetment slope (e.g. with rock or concrete armour units). In coastal engineering, a revetment is a land-backed structure whilst...
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    structure length (in meters) by waves over a structure such as a breakwater, revetment or dike which has a crest height above still water level. When waves break...
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    buildup in man-made levees, and the removal of natural banks replaced with revetments, this sediment output has been reduced by 60%. The most basic river projects...
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    beach erosion or storm damages. These structures included seawalls and revetments or sand-trapping structures such as groynes. During the 1920s and '30s...
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    Wave run-up is the height to which waves run up the slope of a revetment, bank or dike, regardless of whether the waves are breaking or not. Conversely...
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    façade or revetment on the front of the monument. The archaeologists also found what they believed to be the bottom course of a revetment, still in place...
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    Lagoon. One traditional way of constructing islands is with the use of a revetment. Sandbags or stones are dropped with a barge into the sea to bring the...
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    as a security measure against sabotage rather than being dispersed in revetments for protection against air attack. (Arakaki and Kuborn, pp. 5–6, 38) Rep...
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    The Piers and Revetments at Grand Haven, Michigan are navigational structures located at the mouth of the Grand River in Grand Haven, Michigan. The structures...
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  • Revetment Riprap Seawall Tetrapod Training wall Van der Meer formula Wharf Xbloc Soft engineering Beach nourishment Beach drainage Dynamic revetment Living...
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    revealed a revetment wall built to retain the inner bank. It was concluded that over time the earth had covered over the top of the revetment wall and that...
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    Zealand River, New Hampshire. More than 150 grade-control structures, bank revetments and channel deflectors were constructed on the two U.S. Forest Service...
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    hard engineering structures in coastal engineering are, namely seawall, revetment, groyne or breakwater. Most commonly used hard structures are seawall...
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  • tapering revetments (slope) as aesthetic landscaping feature. Revetments could be made of locally available material. Different parts of revetment could...
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    bulkheads are most often referred to as seawalls, bulkheading, or riprap revetments. These manmade structures are constructed along shorelines with the purpose...
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    terminal building, 3 commercial remote stands, and 30 large revetments. A remote revetment area contains 5 bomber pads and probably 5 fighter pads. The...
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    particularly high tide; a "wharf" (bank) of raised earth with timber revetments had to be created to carry the building above the flood level. The new...
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    southern part of the airport has hardened aircraft shelters and artillery revetments. The second terminal have a capacity to handle 25 million passengers....
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    tributaries by dams, meander cutoffs, river-training structures, and bank revetments and soil erosion control programs in the areas drained by them. Denser...
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    built bridges across water obstacles, laid minefields, erected earthen revetments, dug trenches, built machine gun nests, and prepared new defence lines...
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    Lakefront Trail. Where there are no beaches or marinas, stone or concrete revetments protect the shoreline from erosion. The Chicago lakefront is accessible...
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    These will act as a single unit and are stacked with setbacks to form a revetment or retaining wall. They have the advantage of being well drained, flexible...
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    personnel—can be protected by fortifications. Aircraft can be protected by revetments, hesco barriers, hardened aircraft shelters and underground hangars which...
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    Weighing up to 8 tonnes (8.8 short tons), dolosse are used to build revetments for protection against the erosive force of waves from a body of water...
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