Dam break modelling,risk assessment and uncertainty analysis for flood mitigation/ (Record no. 153800)
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| fixed length control field | 00332nam a2200109Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780415455947 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 363.3493 |
| Item number | ZAG/D |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Zagonjolli, Migena |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Dam break modelling,risk assessment and uncertainty analysis for flood mitigation/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Migena Zagonjolli |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London; |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Balkema, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xv, 140 p. |
| Other physical details | ill.(some color), color maps ; |
| Dimensions | 25 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Summary <br/>1 Introduction <br/>1.1 Background <br/>1.2 Management of the flood risk caused by structural failure <br/>1.3 Scope of the thesis <br/>1.4 Outline of the thesis<br/><br/> 2 Water Retention and Flood Defence Structures <br/>2.1 Design criteria and failure modes for dams <br/>2.2 Design criteria and failure modes for dikes <br/>2.3 Breach modelling <br/>2.3.1 Breach shape <br/>2.3.2 Breach development <br/>2.3.3 Breach formation mechanisms <br/>2.3.4 Hydraulics of the breaching flow <br/><br/>3 Current Approaches for Dealing with Flooding <br/>3.1 Introduction <br/>3.2 The Netherlands long history of battle against floods <br/>3.3 Japan's experience in dealing with floods<br/>3.4 Modelling of propagation of flood caused by structure failure 3.5 Uncertainty associated with flood modelling <br/><br/>4 Current Approaches to Structure Breach Modelling <br/>4.1 Background <br/>4.2 Experimental work <br/>4.3 Empirical equations <br/>4.4 Physically based models<br/><br/>5 Data Mining Techniques in Dam Breach Modelling <br/>5.1 Introduction <br/>5.2 Main principles of data mining modelling <br/>5.2.1 Linear regression <br/>5.2.2 Artificial Neural Networks <br/>5.2.3 Instance Based Learning (IBL) <br/>5.3 Application <br/>5.3.1 Data preparation and model evaluation <br/>5.3.2 Predicting breach width based on water depth behind the dam <br/>5.3.3 Predicting peak outflow <br/>5.4 Conclusions <br/><br/>6 BREADA model: Breach model for earthfill dams <br/>6.1 Development of a Dam Breach Model <br/>6.2 Trapezoidal Shape <br/>6.3 Validation of the BREADA model <br/>6.4 Hypothetical dam break analysis of an earthfill dam <br/>6.4.1 Modelling of breach development <br/>6.4.2 Modelling of flood propagation <br/>6.5 Uncertainty in the dam break analysis <br/>6.6 Discussion and conclusions <br/><br/>7 Development of a Numerical-Constraint based Model <br/>7.1 Introduction <br/>7.2 Methodology <br/>7.3 Application <br/>7.4 Discussion and Conclusion <br/><br/>8 Conclusions and Recommendations <br/>8.1 Conclusions |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Dam failures -- Mathematical models. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 28/08/2016 | 363.3493 ZAG/D | P08581 | 10/07/2018 | 10/07/2018 | General Books |