Dictionary for the subject CIE5314
| Angle of repose | hoek van het natuurlijke talud |
| Aquifer | aquifer |
| Aquifer | watervoerende laag |
| Aquitard | aquitard |
| Blanket | bodembescherming |
| Boundary condition | randvoorwaarde |
| Breach | bres |
| Breaker parameter | Iribarrengetal |
| Cascading dike failures | trapsgewijs falen van opeenvolgende dijken |
| Catchment | stroomgebied |
| Characteristic value | karakteristieke waarde |
| Compacting | verdichten |
| Consolidation | consolidatie |
| Core | boorkern |
| Correlation | correlatie |
| Cover layer | Toplaag |
| CPT (cone penetration test) | sondering |
| Creep | kruip |
| crest | kruin |
| Critical head difference | kritisch stijghoogteverschil |
| Crown | kruin |
| Cumulative distribution function | verdelingsfunctie |
| Damage function | schadefunctie |
| Damping | demping |
| Design storm | Ontwerpstorm |
| design water level | ontwerpwaterstand |
| Deterministic | deterministisch |
| dike (dyke) | dijk |
| dike circle | dijkring |
| Discharge | debiet |
| Ditch | sloot |
| Ditch | greppel |
| drag | slepen - trekken - stromingsweerstand |
| Drawdown | snelle daling waterniveau |
| Effective stress | effectieve korrelspanning |
| Embankment | dijk, kade |
| Equi-potential line | potentiaallijn |
| Estuary | zeearm |
| Exit gradient | uittreegradient |
| Exit point | uittreepunt |
| Expected annual damage | verwachte jaarlijkse schade |
| External safety | externe veiligheid |
| Extreme value | extreme waarde |
| Factor of safety | veiligheidsfactor |
| Failure mechanism | faalmechanisme |
| Failure mode | faalmechanisme |
| Failure probability | Faalkans |
| Failure probability | Bezwijkkans |
| Fault tree | foutenboom |
| Fetch | Strijklengte |
| Flood defence | waterkering |
| Flood defence act | wet op de waterkering |
| Flood risk | overstromingsrisico |
| Flood wall | Keermuur |
| Flow net | vierkantennet |
| foreshore | vooroever |
| Fragility curve | kwetsbaarheidscurve |
| freeboard | waakhoogte |
| Friction angle | wrijvingshoek |
| Gabion | schanskorf |
| Groyne (beach groyne) | Strandhoofd |
| groyne (river groyne) | krib (rivierkrib) |
| Head | stijghoogte |
| Head difference | stijghoogteverschil |
| heave | opdrijven |
| heave | heave |
| Hindcast | Hindcast |
| Hinterland | achterland |
| Hydraulic conductivity | doorlatendheid |
| Hydraulic roughness | hydraulische weerstand |
| impermeable | niet poreus, ondoorlatend |
| Individual risk | individueel risico |
| Intredepunt | entrance point |
| Intrusion length | indringingslengte |
| Inundation | overstroming (inundatie) |
| Iribarren number | Iribarrengetal |
| Kinematic viscosity | kinematische viscositeit |
| Leakage factor | lekfactor |
| Leakage length | leklengte |
| Levee | dijk |
| Limit state function | betrouwbaarheidsfunctie |
| liquefaction | zettingsvloeiing |
| Macro instability | macroinstabiliteit |
| Micro instability | microinstabiliteit |
| Multi-layered safety | meerlaagsveiligheid |
| Oblique | schuin |
| Overflow | overloop |
| Overload | overbelasting |
| Overtopping | Overslag |
| Overwash | Overslag |
| peat | veen |
| Permeability | Doorlatendheid |
| permeable | doorlatend |
| Phreatic level | freatisch niveau |
| Phreatic level | stijghoogte |
| piping | piping (pijpvorming) |
| pitch | zetten (plaveien) |
| Pore water pressure | waterspanning |
| Potential | potentiaal |
| Probability density function | dichtheidsfunctie |
| Probability distribution | kansverdeling |
| Probability distribution function | verdelingsfunctie |
| Probability of exceedance | overschrijdingskans |
| Reliability | betrouwbaarheid |
| Relief well | verlichtingswel |
| Residual risk | restrisico |
| Residual strength | reststerkte |
| Retain | keren |
| Retention basin | retentiebekken |
| Return period | herhalingstijd |
| revetment | steenzetting, bekleding |
| riprap | breuksteen, stortsteen |
| Risk curve | groepsrisico-curve |
| Safety assessment | toetsing |
| Safety standard | veiligheidsnorm |
| saltmarsh | kwelder |
| Sand boil | wel |
| saturated | verzadigd |
| scour | ontgronding, uitschuring |
| Seepage | kwel |
| Seepage screen | kwelscherm |
| Seepage surface | lekvlak |
| Seepange length | kwellengte |
| settlement | zetten (van grond) |
| shear stress | schuifspanning |
| sheet pile | damwand |
| slide | afschuiving |
| slip circle | glijcirkel |
| slip surface | glijvlak |
| Societal risk | groepsrisico |
| Soil nailing | Grondvernageling |
| Stability | stabiliteit |
| Stochastic variable | stochast |
| storm surge | stormvloed |
| Stream line | stroomlijn |
| Subsoil | ondergrond |
| Suffusion | Uitlogingserosie |
| Surf Similarity parameter | Iribarrengetal |
| Toe | teen |
| Toe ditch | kwelsloot |
| Total stress | totaalspanning |
| Transmissivity | doorlatendheid |
| Uplift | Opwaartse druk |
| Volumetric weight | volumegewicht |
| Water board | waterschap |
| Wave setup | golfopzet |
| well | wel |
| wind set up (storm surge) | windopzet (opwaaing) |