Landslide dam failure and flood hydraulics. Part I: experimental investigation |
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Authors: | Zhixian Cao Zhiyuan Yue and Gareth Pender |
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Institution: | (1) State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China;(2) School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK;(3) Yangtze River Waterway Research Institute, Wuhan, China |
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Abstract: | Landslide dam failure can trigger catastrophic flooding in the downstream. However, field observation of such flooding is
rarely available, while laboratory experimental studies are sparse. The mechanism of landslide dam failure and the flood has
so far remained insufficiently understood. Here, we present an experimental investigation of landslide dam failure and the
flood. A total of 28 runs of experiments are carried out in a flume of 80 m × 1.2 m × 0.8 m, with differing inflow discharge,
dam composition, dam geometry, and initial breach dimension. An array of twelve automatic water-level probes is deployed to
measure the stage hydrographs along the flume, and the video recording of the dam failure processes facilitates an estimation
of the widening of initial breach. Under the present experimental conditions with dams composed of homogeneous materials,
landslide dam failure is primarily caused by erosion of overtopping flow, and lateral mass collapse is also considerable during
the cause of breach widening. Cohesive clay may act to mitigate the seepage through the dam and thus its subsidence and appreciably
modulate the dam failure process and the flood. However, the impacts of clay may be readily overwhelmed by a large inflow
discharge and initial breach. Gravels in the dam may appreciably depress the rate of the dam failure process and thus modify
the flood. The present work provides new experimental data set for testing mathematical models of the flood flow due to landslide
dam failure. |
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