Floods caused by breaches of embankment and landslide dams are not only a tremendous
geological disaster, destroying people's lives and property, they also strongly shape the …

In response to climatic change, the size and number of moraine-dammed supraglacial and
proglacial lake systems have increased dramatically in recent decades. Given an …

Numerous landslide dams have been induced in recent years as a result of frequent
earthquakes and extreme climate hazards. Landslide dams present serious threats to lives …

Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are highly mobile mixtures of water and sediment that
occur suddenly and are capable of traveling tens to hundreds of kilometers with peak …

A large number of embankment structures, including dams, levees, dikes, and barriers, have
been built by humans or formed naturally along rivers, lakes, and coastal lines around the …

A simplified physically based model has been developed to simulate the breaching
processes of homogenous and composite earthen embankments owing to overtopping and …

In recent years the number of tailings dams failures has increased. On 25 January 2019, the
Brumadinho tailings dam in Brazil suddenly failed, releasing a mudflow over 10 m deep …

The breach of landslide dam often causes significant disaster in the inundated area; the
prediction of breach hydrograph is in high demand for the dam breach risk evaluation. In this …

This paper presents a two‐dimensional shallow water equations code coupled with a
physically based erosion model, able to predict the opening and evolution of breaches …

Infrastructure embankment failures due to flooding have been recorded in many countries.
The consequences of flood-induced embankment failures have mainly been limited to …