Investigation Into Overtopping Mitigation Strategies
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- W81EWF-24-SOI-0038
- Agency
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Engineer Research and Development Center
US Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $400,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Science and Technology and other Research and Development
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
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About this opportunity
This federal grant opportunity, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center, seeks research into mitigation strategies for overtopping of embankments and floodwalls. The research is expected to assess factors leading to overtopping breach, identify current mitigation approaches, conduct laboratory investigations, improve numerical modeling, and evaluate physical mitigation strategies. Applicants must be non-federal partners of the Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU). The application process has two phases, with a statement of interest due by August 13, 2024, and a full proposal due by August 27, 2024 if invited.
The total estimated program funding is $1,200,000 over 4 years, with individual awards up to $400,000 per year. This opportunity is funded under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630), which supports a wide range of research and development activities across various scientific and technical disciplines to advance technologies and methodologies that can contribute to the missions of the Department of Defense and other federal agencies.
Synopsis
This agreement represents an opportunity for research into mitigation strategies for embankment and floodwall overtopping breach. To accomplish this, the following is anticipated:
1. Assess factors that may lead to overtopping breach and relevant failure mechanisms for the different embankment and floodwall designs that are common to the USACE inventory. Assess the current state of practice for numerical modeling used for performance predictions of levees and floodwalls with regards to overtopping breach. Collect case histories of overtopping events for use in analytical or numerical assessment of embankment and floodwall performance when overtopping occurs.
2. Identify the current state of practice for mitigating overtopping of flood control levees and floodwalls, including USACE and international approaches. Identify potential emerging technologies that could be used to mitigate overtopping breach of flood control embankments and floodwalls.
3. Perform laboratory investigations to quantify potential improvement of embankment and floodwall foundation soils during overtopping. Saturated and unsaturated soil mechanics approaches could be explored when appropriate.
4. Investigate and develop numerical methodologies to improve current numerical performance predictions. Identify advanced approaches and define when these might improve performance predictions. Identify uncertainty in standard and advanced numerical approaches.
5. Perform physical testing to assess different mitigation strategies for overtopping performance of the different mitigation strategies. Provide quantifiable design recommendation based on these tests as well as data for the validation of numerical models.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
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| B01.03_FOA_W81EWF-24-SOI-0038.pdf |
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