Dam Breach Modelling and Risk Disposal

Dam Breach Modelling and Risk Disposal
Author: Jian-Min Zhang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2020-04-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030463516

This proceedings book gathers contributions presented at the First International Conference on Embankment Dams (1st ICED, Beijing, 5–7 June 2020), which was the inaugural conference of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical Committee TC210 on Embankment Dams. The contributions address five themes: (1) case histories on the failure of embankment dams and landslide dams; (2) dam failure process modelling; (3) soil mechanics for embankment dams; (4) dam risk assessment and management; and (5) monitoring, early warning and emergency response. These proceedings offer a unique resource that systematically presents recent dam breaching cases, their social impact, associated risk management strategies, and disposal methods for failed dams. It is an excellent reference guide for dam and levee engineers, flood safety officials, and emergency management agencies.

Dam Breach Modeling Technology

Dam Breach Modeling Technology
Author: V.P. Singh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401587477

Dams are constructed for economic development, and their construction involves large investments of money, and natural and human resources. Of the various types of dams constructed around the globe, earth dams are the most common type and constitute the vast majority of dams. When adam fails, it culminates in the sudden release of artificially stored water which, in turn, becomes a potential menace to virtually everything downstream. The dam failure may result in loss of life and property. In recent years, instances of dam failure in the world have been too many, and the resulting loss too high. As a result, dam safety pro grams have been developed in most countries of the world since the beginning of the nineteenth eighties. · Earth dams are more susceptible to failure than other types. The cause of failure is often either overtopping or piping. The modeling of dam breaching due to either or both of these causes is of fundamental importance to development of dam-safety programs. This book is, therefore, an attempt to present some aspects of earth-dam breach modeling technology. It is hoped that others will be stimulated to write more comprehensive texts on this subject of growing interest and importance. The book is divided into eight chapters. The first chapter is introductory and discusses some aspects of dams and dam failures in the world.

Dam Break Modelling, Risk Assessment and Uncertainty Analysis for Flood Mitigation

Dam Break Modelling, Risk Assessment and Uncertainty Analysis for Flood Mitigation
Author: Migena Zagonjolli
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-10-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780415455947

More than 800,000 dams and thousands of kilometers of dikes have been constructed around the world. These structures are often designed based on a statistical analysis of the discharge distribution in rivers. However, the history of construction of dams and dikes coexists with the history of failures. Hundreds of dam failure events were reported worldwide in the previous century, while every year dikes breach due to high flows in the rivers or for other reasons leading sometimes to catastrophic consequences. In this book a description is presented of a framework and techniques for modelling structure failure events as well as a proposal to several novel approaches for risk analysis and assessment by numerical, statistical and constrained based methods in particular to the problems of breach modelling and flood water mitigation.

Dam Failure Mechanisms and Risk Assessment

Dam Failure Mechanisms and Risk Assessment
Author: Limin Zhang
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2016-08-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118558510

This book integrates the physical processes of dam breaching and the mathematical aspects of risk assessment in a concise manner • The first book that introduces the causes, processes and consequences of dam failures • Integrates the physical processes of dam breaching and the mathematical aspects of risk assessment in a concise manner • Emphasizes integrating theory and practice to better demonstrate the application of risk assessment and decision methodologies to real cases • Intends to formulate dam-breaching emergency management steps in a scientific structure

Dam-break Problems, Solutions and Case Studies

Dam-break Problems, Solutions and Case Studies
Author: D. De Wrachien
Publisher: WIT Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2009
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1845641426

The aim of the book is to give an up-to-date review on dam-break problems, along with the main theoretical background and the practical aspects involved in dam failures, design of flood defense structures, prevention measures and the environmental social, economic and forensic aspects related to the topic. Moreover, an exhaustive range of laboratory tests and modeling techniques is explored to deal effectively with shock waves and other disasters caused by dam failures. Disaster management refers to programs and strategies designed to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from the effects of these phenomena.To manage and minimize these risks, it is necessary to identify hazards and vulnerability by means of a deep knowledge of the causes which drive to dam failures, and to understand the flow propagation process.Knowledge and advanced scientific tools play a role of paramount importance of coping with flooding and other dam-break problems along with capacity building in the context of political and administrative frameworks. All these aspects are featured in the book, which is a comprehensive treaty that covers the most theoretical and advanced aspects of structural and hydraulic engineering, together with the hazard assessment and mitigation measures and the social economic and forensic aspects related to subject.

Risk and Uncertainty in Dam Safety

Risk and Uncertainty in Dam Safety
Author: Desmond N. D. Hartford
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780727732705

Intends to assist the dam owner in evaluating the needs for dam safety improvement, selecting and prioritizing remedial and corrective actions, and improving the operation, maintenance and surveillance procedures. This book is intended not only for industry specialists but also for readers outside the dam engineering community.

Dam Breach Modeling Technology

Dam Breach Modeling Technology
Author: Vijay Singh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789401587488

Dams are constructed for economic development, and their construction involves large investments of money, and natural and human resources. Of the various types of dams constructed around the globe, earth dams are the most common type and constitute the vast majority of dams. When adam fails, it culminates in the sudden release of artificially stored water which, in turn, becomes a potential menace to virtually everything downstream. The dam failure may result in loss of life and property. In recent years, instances of dam failure in the world have been too many, and the resulting loss too high. As a result, dam safety pro grams have been developed in most countries of the world since the beginning of the nineteenth eighties. · Earth dams are more susceptible to failure than other types. The cause of failure is often either overtopping or piping. The modeling of dam breaching due to either or both of these causes is of fundamental importance to development of dam-safety programs. This book is, therefore, an attempt to present some aspects of earth-dam breach modeling technology. It is hoped that others will be stimulated to write more comprehensive texts on this subject of growing interest and importance. The book is divided into eight chapters. The first chapter is introductory and discusses some aspects of dams and dam failures in the world.

Earth-Rock Dams,Äô Breach Modelling

Earth-Rock Dams,Äô Breach Modelling
Author: Qiming Zhong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN:

Simulation of dam breach process has significant influence on the evaluation of consequence of dam breach flood. In this study, research progresses on the numerical modeling of earth-rock dams,Äô breach process are summarized, especially the latest research results of the author,Äôs research team in recent years. However, there still has a considerable gap in the versatility of computer software and visualization technology of dam breaching process. It is suggested that more efforts should be made in the future to study the detailed physically based numerical model for core dam and concrete face rockfill dam; further, more attention should be paid to the application of visualization technology in dam breach process simulation. Finally, the universal and friendly visualization computer software that can accurately simulate the dam failure process and flood routing for earth-rock dams is sorely needed.

Evolution of Dam Breach and Routing of the Flood Waves at the Downstream Reaches

Evolution of Dam Breach and Routing of the Flood Waves at the Downstream Reaches
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Historical failure of dams and then impact on the environment created immense disaster in terms of loss of human life and property. A disaster is associated with risk and therefore needs a thorough investigation for its possible outcomes and safeguards. Therefore, study of risk associated with each dam is becoming an important activity to prevent and mitigate the consequences of its failure. To understand the dam break process, many researchers have investigated the work by using distorted physical model, numerical simulations or experimental coupled with numerical based approaches. To quantify the risk associated with dam break, one needs to understand the breaching process that leads to predict breaching parameters. This research is focused on three main objectives, empirical equations are proposed for estimation of breach parameters and peak outflows by using data of past dam failures. It is known fact that the resultant flooding at the downstream reaches due to an overtopping failure of the earthen dam is reliant on breach formation process and the erosion rate of compacted soil. Therefore, the second objective is to carry out the overtopping failure of 22 embankments that are experimentally investigated that are constructed with different soil properties, compaction moisture content and compaction energy. The purpose is to understand, how these breach parameters are affected by the change of soil properties, compaction moisture content and compaction energy. The final breach shape and parameters recorded in the experiments show remarkable change for each failure. The results testify a high correlation between compaction moisture content with the erosion process. Also, the effect of embankment cracks on over topping breach failure is studied. It is seen that embankments with large dry density erode faster as compared to the embankment with low dry density because of the developments of deep and long cracks in the former. Further, MIKE 11 (1-D) hydrodynamic model