ABSTRACT Dam failures are catastrophic accidents resulting in property damage and loss of life. Risk prioritisation systems should be used in accordance with dam safety regulations to prevent these disasters. The purpose of this paper is to develop a risk assessment software which can be used by the decision makers for ranking of dams. Risk assessment was conducted on three embankment dams from Turkey to obtain information about the dam performance based on piping, earthquake, normal stability and flood failure modes. Parameters are incorporated into the programme to develop a new model that could predict variables such as breach width, dam failure time, side slope and peak breach discharge. The proposed tool gives flexibility to choose dam elements for describing the primary features of the evaluated dam; so users can make hazard categorisation of dams according to their risk level which is based on unique project conditions.

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改进的堤坝风险评估工具：土耳其三座大坝的案例研究

【摘要】：大坝溃决是造成财产损失和人员伤亡的灾难性事故。应根据大坝安全法规使用风险优先级系统来预防这些灾害。本文的目的是开发一个风险评估软件，决策者可以使用该软件对大坝进行排名。对来自土耳其的三座堤坝进行了风险评估，以根据管道、地震、正常稳定性和洪水破坏模式获取有关大坝性能的信息。参数被纳入程序以开发一个新模型，该模型可以预测诸如裂口宽度、大坝破坏时间、边坡和峰值裂口流量等变量。建议的工具可以灵活地选择大坝元素来描述被评估大坝的主要特征；