Abstract Intensification of extreme rainfall-runo events in arid and semi-arid regions because climate change induce the water erosion that contributes considerably to loss vegetal layers soils reduce storage capacity dams by silting transported sediments from watershed impoundment. This paper aims at proposing means for protecting Mghila dam against identification delimitation vulnerable areas...

The 300 m-level high arch dams built in China have different degrees of valley-narrowing deformation the initial impoundment. This unexpected phenomenon may increase long-term safety risk dams. There are several explanations for phenomenon, and one explanations—that it is caused by a drop bedrock temperature—is still under debate. In this paper, coupled thermo-hydromechanical (THM) simulations ...

Leakage is the most serious problem in reservoir operation, because heavy leakage influences impoundment efficiency and even leads to a complete loss of functions. Since its completion 1982, Qionglin Reservoir has never been fully filled with water except spring 1983 when there was rain. The management unit suspected that side slopes, bottom or dam might leak carried out number prevention impro...

In order to evaluate the superiority of a filtered tailings storage facility (FTSF) to conventional tailings impoundment in the southern rainy regions of China (SRRC), the tailings slurry leakage and pollution accident occurring at the wet tailings dam (WTD) of Yinshan were analyzed, the properties of the tailings were tested in a laboratory, and the possibility of tailings liquefaction was eva...

Dam-affected hydrologic time series give rise to uncertainties when they are used for calibrating large-scale hydrologic models or for analysing runoff records. It is therefore necessary to identify and to quantify the impact of impoundments on runoff time series. Two different approaches were employed. The first, classic approach compares the volume of the dams that are located upstream from a...

The first impoundment of a super-high dam is crucial period from construction to operation, in which the prediction deformation vital for continued safety dam. Therefore, multi-head attention model based on Pearson K-means clustering proposed, shortened PKMA. inputs PKMA include measurements displacements plumb lines, water levels, air temperatures, body and foundation temperatures. Among these...

The regime of sediment transport in the Jingjiang Reach has significantly changed from quasi-equilibrium to sub-saturation since the impoundment of the Three Gorges Dam (TGD), and vertical profiles of suspended sediment concentration (SSC) have changed accordingly. Vertical profiles of SSC data measured at three hydrological stations in the Jingjiang Reach (Zhicheng, Shaishi, and Jianli), befor...

Lake Oroville is a large artificial lake created by the construction of a 235-mhigh earth dam on the Feather River, California, near the city of Oroville. Its storage capacity is about 4.4 × 109 m 3, and its maximum depth is about 200 m. There was no significant increase in seismic activity in the lake region following impoundment of the dam late in 1967 until the occurrence of many small seism...