Publication detail

A comparison of breach modelling methods applied to the Slusovice earth dam.

ŘÍHA, J. HOLOMEK, P.

Original Title

A comparison of breach modelling methods applied to the Slusovice earth dam.

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

Within the Czech dam safety revision program, the dam failure processes have been analysed. Because the earth dams are more susceptible to failure than other types, a special attention has been paid to the earth-dam breaching process Simulations of earth-dam breach events are crucial to reducing threats due to potential earth-dam failures. The cause of an earth-dam failure is usually either overtopping or piping; in both cases the mechanism is the earth-dam breaching process. The dam breaching modelling techniques make therefore a fundamental part of each dam-safety programme. The scope of this paper is to introduce and compare several earth-dam breach modelling techniques and to present their practical application to the first category dam Slusovice (Czech Republic).

Keywords

numerical modelling, safety revision program, dam, breach

Authors

ŘÍHA, J.; HOLOMEK, P.

RIV year

2000

Released

6. 10. 2000

ISBN

0-617-00563-X

Year of study

XI

Number

3

Pages from

171

Pages to

202

Pages count

31

BibTex

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