Chiganne, François; Marche, Claude; Mahdi, Tew-Fik - In: Natural Hazards 71 (2014) 1, pp. 21-39
The standard procedure in Quebec, Canada, for evaluating the failure of an embankment dam, per the Loi sur la sécurité des barrages, specifies a 30-min-long failure scenario with a breach width equal to four times the maximal height of the dam. We demonstrate a new method for evaluating the...