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Tailings Dam Breach Volume Prediction Tool by Diego Casas is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document describes a software tool developed to predict tailings dam breach volumes for use in flood hazard modeling. The tool uses an event tree approach and empirical correlations from documented dam failures to estimate breach volumes based on failure mode (hydrologic, static, or seismic) and dam geometry data. Predicted breach volumes are distributed over time as hydrographs of different shapes for input to 2D flood models to map downstream hazards in the event of dam failure. The tool is meant to
- Author
- Diego Casas
- Language
- EN