Silvia Bersan

Engineering · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Dam Engineering and Safety(11), Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures(8), Hydraulic flow and structures(6), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes(4), Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors(3)

Publications20 total

The energy quay wall: Results from a full-scale field test
Renewable Energy·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
An optical fiber-based monitoring system to study the seepage flow below the landside toe of a river levee
Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring·2021· 33 cited
Energy quay walls
E3S Web of Conferences·2020· 4 citedOpen Access
Large-Scale Testing of Distributed Temperature Sensing for Early Detection of Piping
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering·2019· 15 cited
Multidisciplinary Analysis and Modelling of a River Embankment Affected by Piping
Lecture notes in civil engineering·2018· 9 cited
Underground Storage of Latent Heat: Theory and Experiments
Springer series in geomechanics and geoengineering·2018
Effectiveness of distributed temperature measurements for early detection of piping in river embankments
Hydrology and earth system sciences·2018· 39 citedOpen Access
Distributed strain measurements in a CFA pile using high spatial resolution fibre optic sensors
Engineering Structures·2018· 51 cited
Monitoring the Foundation Soil of an Existing Levee Using Distributed Temperature Fiber Optic Sensors
Springer series in geomechanics and geoengineering·2018
Distributed optical fibre sensing for early detection of shallow landslides triggering
Scientific Reports·2017· 137 citedOpen Access
High density distributed strain sensing of landslide in large scale physical model
Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE·2017· 6 cited
Effectiveness of distributed temperature measurements for early detection of piping in river embankments
2017· 4 citedOpen Access
Combined geophysical surveys for the characterization of a reconstructed river embankment
Engineering Geology·2016· 85 cited
Application of a high resolution distributed temperature sensor in a physical model reproducing subsurface water flow
Measurement·2015· 29 cited
Piping detection by Distributed Temperature Sensing: Understanding the development of thermal anomalies
Research Padua Archive (University of Padua)·2015Open Access
Application of distributed temperature sensors in piping-prone dikes
2015· 2 citedOpen Access
Temperature Monitoring in Piping-Prone Hydraulic Structures
2014· 6 cited
River embankment characterization: The joint use of geophysical and geotechnical techniques
Journal of Applied Geophysics·2014· 55 cited
Applicability of the fracture flow interface to the analysis of piping in granular material (abstract)
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)·2013· 3 citedOpen Access
Secondary compression of Venice Lagoon sands and silts from CPTU
Research Padua Archive (University of Padua)·2012· 2 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Paolo Simonini(14), Simonetta Cola(9), Luca Schenato(7), André Koelewijn(6), Luca Palmieri(4), Alessandro Pasuto(4), Jacopo Boaga(3), Giorgio Cassiani(3), Fabio De Polo(3), Jacco K. Haasnoot(3), David Smeulders(3), Matteo Camporese(2), Andrea Galtarossa(2), Paolo Salandin(2), Giulia Bossi(2), Philip J. Vardon(2), Ivaylo Pantev(2), Laura Busato(1), Luca Peruzzo(1), Mahjoub Himi(1)