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Synopsis
The book provides a comprehensive treatment of earth-dam breaching and its modeling. The material contained in the book can be readily used for planning and designing dam-disaster relief work.
The data and the technical matter contained in the book are not available under one cover anywhere else.
The book is timely in that it is being completed in the United Nations Decade for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.
Audience: Practitioners, managers, academians, researchers, as well as graduate students in hydrology, water resources management, natural hazards research and environmental management.
Booknews
The point of studying holes in dams is not to make them but to plan and design dam disaster work. Compiling information scattered through technical and scientific literature, explores such topics as the types and causes of dam failures, the hydraulics of floods and erosion, major recorded dam breaches, dimensional and dimensionless analytical solutions using empirical models, and mathematical models. Also compares and evaluates the various models. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)