Dam Failure
Investigating the vulnerability downstream area of Taleghan dam due to dam failure
... reservoirs. Dam designers attempt to lower vulnerability potentials by applying safety factors; however, natural and non-natural factors like floods, piping phenomenon, foundation weakness and exploding can cause ...
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Research on the Grey Assessment System of Dam Failure Risk
... the dam failure ...of dam failure, it is very difficult to effectively quantify the risk with only collecting and counting data, so it is significative to use the principles of the grey theory ...
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Estimation of peak outflow in dam failure using neural network approach under uncertainty analysis
... Fig. 3 presents a comparison between performance of ANN models and Froehlich (Table 2). Froehlich formula has a very poor performance for testing data (R 2 =0.54) and relatively good performance for testing data (R 2 ...
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Improving prediction of dam failure peak outflow using neuroevolution combined with k-means clustering
... recorded dam failures that are limited in the world due to the fact that the dam failure per se is a rare phenomenon (Wrachien and Mambretti ...under dam breaching conditions is a risky ...
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The relationship among the premonitory factors of landslide dam failure caused by seepage: an experimental study
... The failure of these dams creates additional and catastrophic ...landslide dam failure, about 34% of landslide dams have failed within a day of their ...of failure, is important for disaster ...
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Quantification of climate change impact on dam failure risk under hydrological scenarios: a case study from a Spanish dam
... Spanish dam under hydrological scenarios, integrating the various projected effects acting on each component of the risk, from the input hydrology to the consequences of the outflow ...the dam until the end ...
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Dynamic decision making for dam-break emergency management – Part 2: Application to Tangjiashan landslide dam failure
... the dam-failure probability as a time series and flood con- sequences as functions of warning ...to dam-break floods; it may be applicable to emergency management of other disasters with a certain ...
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Knowledge Intensive Fusion for Situational Awareness: Band Sultan Dam Failure Scenario
... the dam, the reasons for its collapse and the remedial strategies that can be undertaken to reduce the risk of further ...the dam and the likely amount of flood water contained in the ...the dam and ...
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The Stava mudflow of 19 July 1985 (Northern Italy): a disaster that effective regulation might have prevented
... the dam wall had ...the dam triggered a local slide over one meter deep and several meters wide on the external ...underground failure, there was a funnel-shaped cavity several meters wide and about ...
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DAM MORMONS: RESPONDING TO THE 1976 TETON DAM DISASTER IN THE “LORD’S WAY”
... Teton Dam disaster required some accommodation by entrenched sentiments of ...Teton Dam Failure Review Group (IRG) to investigate the causes of the ...the failure of the Teton ...the ...
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Formation, breaching and flood consequences of a landslide dam near Bujumbura, Burundi
... natural dam cases has its own specificities related to the local ...of dam formation or the breach- ing of an existing dam has to be ...natural dam formation, and, on the other hand, assessing ...
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... Saint-Venant for natural channels can be approached using either the method of characteristics or other methods such as finite differences, finite elements or the finite volume method which is generally preferred for its ...
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Dam Break Analysis of Idukki Dam using HEC RAS
... to dam breach it is necessary to predict not only the possibility and mode of a dam failure, but also the flood hydrograph of discharge from the dam breach and the propagation of the flood ...
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... the failure of constructed dams have also produced some of the most devastating disasters of the last two centuries ...[1]. Dam failures raise particular concern because it has the potential to cause more ...
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Bovine Neonatal Pancytopenia is a heritable trait of the dam rather than the calf and correlates with the magnitude of vaccine induced maternal alloantibodies not the MHC haplotype
... the dam was based on the phenotype of the ...(own dam or other dam) of the ingested ...the dam occurred in this study and implies that the heritability for the development of BNP within calves ...
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Community participation in Chinese dam projects : what level of community participation is found in large Chinese overseas dam projects and how can this be explained? : a case study of Bui Dam, Ghana
... knowledge of the rather new phenomenon of Chinese overseas dam projects. The ordinal typology has proven useful in terms of ranking projects. However, it strongly simplifies complex projects. An alternative, more ...
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Optimal design under uncertainty of a passive defense structure against snow avalanches: from a general Bayesian framework to a simple analytical model
... vertical dam protecting one or several buildings situated at a known position on the avalanche ...the dam on the flow in the runout zone where the elements at risk are situated is not easy, and (iii) ...
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Water Resource Management:dam Collapse and Its Impacts on Agric.production in Kankia,northern Nigeria
... through dam collapse and its implications on agricultural production in semi arid region of northern ...the dam site to make observations on the collapsed dam and examine its impact on the local ...
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Learners as Researchers of Their Own Language Learning: Examples from an Autonomy Classroom
... Unfortunately, ‘chaos’ is very often a term cropping up in connection with ‘the autonomy classroom’. However, in order for the learners to take over the management of their own learning, some kind of ...
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Analytical estimation of natural frequency in earth dams with respecting to the foundation effects
... of dam, soil-structure interaction is of prime importance for finding seismic parameters including natural frequency, deformation, and other ...flexibility, dam foundation was simulated using transition ...
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