Abstract: This paper documents the emergency breaching of an approximately 110-m-high landslide dam that was created at Tangjiashan during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake of China’s Southwest Sichuan Province. As an emergency measure, ...

Abstract: This study attempts to use a dam breach model to reproduce the well-monitored outflow hydrograph obtained during the dam breaching process of the Tangjiashan barrier lake, which was formed by a landslide triggered by the ...

Abstract: As a complex process, an underwater explosion is affected by different factors. Shock factors are variables used to characterize the severity of a shock based on scaling laws, which are conventionally used to designate the ...