What is Dam&DikeCARE Project?
Inundation by dam and dikes breaches results in loss of lives and severe property and environmental damage. To reduce such impacts, reliable simulation tools are needed for land-use management and for civil protection safety plans.
Understanding these mechanisms improves engineering capacity for breach analysis (formation and temporal evolution) and for prediction of the discharge hydrograph in real complex situations.
The most important source of uncertainty in the simulation of floods caused by embankments overtopping concerns the breach discharge hydrograph. It is crucial to reduce this uncertainty by developing breaching models with a good compromise between phenomenological complexity and computational cost.
Addressing this issue, Project Dam&DikeCARE is aimed at building an integrated conceptual framework for embankment breaching, comprising hydraulics and soil mechanics, and a new generation of numerical simulation tools for fluid-sediment mixtures. To pursue these objectives, the work-program articulates theoretical, laboratorial and computational tasks.
Within project Dam&DikeCare, datasets have been generated to validate numerical simulation tools. Pursuing the objectives of the project, these datasets are now made available to the community of scientists interested in modelling breaching processes.
