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The book provides a comprehensive treatment of earth-dam breaching and its modeling. The material contained in the book can be readily used for planning and designing dam-disaster relief work. The data and the technical matter contained in the book are not available under one cover anywhere else. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singh, V. P. (Vijay P.)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1996]
Series:Water science and technology library ; v. 17.
Subjects:
Dam failures > Mathematical models.
Barrages > Modèles mathématiques.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Dam Breaching
  • 3. Hydraulics of Dam Breaching
  • 4. Major Recorded Dam Breaches in the World
  • 5. Empirical Models: Dimensional Analytical Solutions
  • 6. Empirical Models: Dimensionless Analytical Solutions
  • 7. Mathematical Models of Dam Breaching
  • 8. Comparative Evaluation of Dam-Breach Models.