diversion dams in order to raise the water level of river and conveys of water into the main canal irrigation network is designed. if the dimensions of different parts of the diversion dam be considered large, stability will be supplying, but due to the increase volume of materials, construction costs will be more. design engineer must choose sections of dam that had least amount of materials a...

The static stability evaluation of tailing dam is one of the most important tasks in the mine environmental protection project. The methods for the static stability calculation were discussed in this paper, which were Swedish Circle Method, Janbu Method, Bishop Method, Finite Element Method and Strength Reduction Finite Element Method (SRFEM) with five different failure criterions considered. T...

Aiming at the impact failure of debris flow grille dam, considering interaction boulder-debris slurry- dam based on SPH-FEM, this article analyzed variation laws velocity, force and support reaction before after slurry boulders passing through dam. The results show that: SPH-FEM coupling method can truly reappear dam; velocity boulder are reduced by nearly 60% effect is remarkable; have seconda...

In this paper, an improved model is presented for analysis of failure probability of the interlayer sliding belts under seismic loads. Firstly, using the theory of the Markov chain, the relation between failure probabilities of specified interlayer sliding belts and elements in this interlayer sliding belt is deduced. Then, the failure function is proposed according to the destructive character...

Manuscript under review. Please do not quote without permission. Better Safe than Sorry 2 Manusctipt under review. Please do not quote without permission. ABSTRACT In four studies, student and nonstudent participants evaluated the possible outcomes of binary decisions involving health, safety, and environmental risks (e.g., whether to issue a dam-failure evacuation order). Many participants ind...

This paper looks at issues associated with estimating risk of seismically initiated failure (uncontrolled release of the reservoir) of dams that are co-located with respect to each other and the location of future earthquakes. These may be dams on the same river or dams regionally co-located on different rivers. Failure of one or more dams could lead to serial dam failures on a single river; or...