One of the main reason of earth-dam breaks is inner erosion which is caused by washing fine soil particles and finally lead to seepage inside the dam. Seepage will decrease effective tension in the earth-dam's core and arching phenomena is occurred. More settlement of core than to shell is the consequence of arching and occurrence of cracking. In this paper, GeoStudio software based on finite e...

Over the past half century, a surprising number of major pollution incidents occurred due to tailings dam failures. Most previous studies of such incidents comprised forensic analyses of environmental impacts after a tailings dam failure, with few considering the combined pollution risk before incidents occur at a watershed-scale. We therefore propose Watershed-scale Tailings-pond Pollution Ris...

Dam failures occur worldwide and can be economically ecologically devastating. Communicating the scale of these risks to general public decision-makers is imperative. Two-dimensional (2D) dam failure hydraulic models inform owners floodplain managers flood regimes but have limitations when shared with non-specialists. This study addresses by constructing a 3D Virtual Reality (VR) environment di...