Dams are expensive technical constructions that ensure food production, sustain farmers’ income, and cover a large percentage of urban water supply demands. However, the threat dam break flood, which can be extremely dangerous for local society, should taken into account, proactive mitigation measures planned. Towards this direction, modelling flood hazard assessment essential developing crisis...

Forensic studies of past hydraulic structure failures are rare despite their critical relevance to modern hydraulic design, and the writers (Dai et al., 2005) must be congratulated for their outstanding study. Herein the discussion is focused on two aspects of the conclusion. It is believed that dam overtopping was the primary cause of the Dadu river landslide dam failure, although aftershocks ...

The overall objective of the study is to generate information for an enhanced land use planning with respect to flood hazards. The study assesses the potential impact of climate change by simulating a dam break scenario in a high intensity rainfall event and evaluates the vulnerability risk in the downstream region by integrating ArcGIS and Hydrologic Engineering Centers River Analysis System (...

Results from a 10-yr study of five dam breed groups in a range beef production system were used as inputs to a simulation model to evaluate life cycle biological and economic performance. Dam breed groups were straightbred Herefords (HH), Angus-Hereford and Simmental-Hereford F1 crosses (AH and 1S1H), 75% Hereford-25% Simmental (1S3H), and 25% Hereford-75%. Simmental (3S1H). Biological measures...

Overtopping dam break is a frequent accident in tailings reservoirs. However, little attention has been paid to the study of overtopping hydraulic erosion damage characteristics after adding reinforcement. Nowadays, there were few people have researched prediction failure process reinforced dam. It important significance establish model for which aims at problem tailings. For anti-erosion and a...

In dam break waves, the surge front is a sudden discontinuity characterized by extremely rapid variations of flow depth and velocity. In this study, simple analytical solutions for instantaneous dam break wave are developed using the method of characteristics. The solutions are obtained for initially dry horizontal and sloping channels with turbulent motion, and they are compared with several d...

MOD_FreeSurf2D is an open source MATLAB code that simulates fluid velocities and depths in rivers and streams. Although this model was designed for a specific purpose, MOD_FreeSurf2D can be employed in general scenarios when the depth-averaged, shallow water equations apply. The model approximates the depth-averaged, shallow water equations with a finite volume, semi-implicit, semi-Lagrangian r...

Many of Iraqi's high-hazard dams lack an Emergency Action Plan, which should include a flood inundation map to show downstream areas would be flooded if the were fail. This article presents results simulation hypothetical 2D dam break for 58 m high Khassa Chai in Kirkuk, Iraq, using HEC-RAS 5.0.7 software. The is situated 7.4 km north Kirkuk. simulations revealed that dam-break will affect eigh...