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Dam failure mechanisms and risk assessment /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhang, L. M. (Limin) (Author), Peng, Ming, 1981- (Author), Chang, Dongsheng, 1983- (Author), Xu, Yao, 1982- (Author)
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
Subjects:
Dam failures.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Dams and their components
  • Statistical analysis of failures of constructed embankment dams
  • Statistical analysis of failures of landslide dams
  • Statistical analysis of failures of concrete dams
  • Statistical analysis of failures of dikes
  • Internal erosion in dams and their foundations
  • Mechanics of overtopping erosion of dams
  • Dam breach modeling
  • Analysis of dam-breaching flood routing
  • Analysis of probability of failure of dams
  • Vulnerability to dam-breaching floods
  • Dam failure risk assessment
  • Dam failure contingency risk management
  • Case study : risk-based decision making for the tangjiashan landslide dam failure.