Stability criterion for people in floods for various slopes

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Water Management

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 180-189

  Xia, Junqiang ^a   Chen, Qian ^a   Falconer, Roger A ^b   Deng, Shanshan ^a   Guo, Peng ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Floods floodworks; Hydraulics hydrodynamics; Risk probability analysis

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STABILITY;

CRITICAL VELOCITIES; DERIVED FORMULAE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXTREME FLOOD EVENTS; INCIPIENT VELOCITY; PROBABILITY ANALYSIS; PROTOTYPE EXPERIMENT; SMALL-SCALE MODELING;

STABILITY CRITERIA;

EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 84978986510     PISSN: 17417589     EISSN: 17517729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/wama.14.00110     Document Type: Article

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