Physically based simulation of dam breach development for Tangjiashan Quake Dam, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1081-1094

  Liu, Fan ^a   Fu, Xudong ^a   Wang, Guangqian ^a   Duan, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Breach; Flow hydrograph; Fluvial erosion; Gravitational collapse; Quake dam; Simulation; Tangjiashan

Indexed keywords

BREACH; FLUVIAL EROSION; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; HYDROGRAPHS; SIMULATION; TANGJIASHAN;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EARTHQUAKES; EROSION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DAMS;

BEDLOAD; COST; DAM FAILURE; DATA SET; ERODIBILITY; EROSION RATE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAVITY FIELD; HYDROGRAPH; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OVERTOPPING; PEAK DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE DYNAMICS;

CHINA; SICHUAN; TANGJIASHAN LAKE;

EID: 84856329662     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1025-9     Document Type: Article

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