A Novel Damage Classification System for Tailing Dams under Extreme Events: Earthquakes and Heavy Rainfall
Publication: Geo-Risk 2023
ABSTRACT
Devastating damages and failure of tailing dams during the earthquake and heavy rains have been well acknowledged in the past. The factors associated with the tailing dam’s failures are earthquake characteristics such as peak ground acceleration (PGA), frequency content, duration and epicentral distance of earthquake; rainfall characteristics like the amount, the intensity, the duration, the frequency or return period, the seasonal distribution, and velocity of the rain flow. Design criteria of the dam, including the foundation soil below the dam and the topographic nature of the local sites, are also essential factors for the tailing dam performance during extreme events. An extensive review is carried out to investigate the dam failure during the 1962−2022 earthquakes and rainfall. Based on historic frequency of extreme events, the damage intensity scale (DIS) for a tailing dam is proposed in the present study. The earthen tailing dams with a geometry ratio greater than 0.8 are more vulnerable than others. Several co-relations are also examined in the present study to identify the damage governing parameters during extreme events.
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Published online: Jul 20, 2023
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- Analysis (by type)
- Climates
- Dam failures
- Dam foundations
- Disaster risk management
- Disasters and hazards
- Earthquakes
- Engineering fundamentals
- Environmental engineering
- Failure analysis
- Failures (by type)
- Foundations
- Frequency distribution
- Geohazards
- Geotechnical engineering
- Man-made disasters
- Mathematics
- Meteorology
- Mine wastes
- Pollutants
- Precipitation
- Rainfall
- Statistics
- Wastes
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