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Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology, HKSAR, China; email: pengming@ust.hk
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Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology, HKSAR, China; email: cezhangl@ust.hk
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Professor, State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention & Geoenvironment Protection,
Chengdu University of Technology, China; e-mail: hrq@cdut.edu.cn
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680
Dam site
Beichuan City
Elevation (m)
640
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600
Tongkou Town
Hanzeng Town
560
Qinlian Town
Longfeng Town
Mianyang City
520
480
Shima Town
440
400
0
10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90
Distance to dam site (km)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
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Real case
145-235
80-100
30
14
740
Medium erodibility
case
184.5
84.6
37.5
11.0
752
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7000
Dam site
6000
Tongkou Town
Mianyang City
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
6/10
5:00
6/10
7:00
6/11
3:00
6/11
5:00
Dam site
Tongkou Town
10000
Mianyang City
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
6/16 6/17
23:00 1:00
6/17
3:00
6/17
5:00
6/17
7:00
Dam site
35000
Flow rate (m3/s)
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Tongkou Town
30000
Mianyang City
25000
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
6/16 6/17
22:00 0:00
6/17
2:00
6/17
4:00
6/17
6:00
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1 + 13.277( PAR
0.440
PAR
(5)
) EXP[0.759(WT ) 3.790( Force) + 2.223(WT )( Force)]
where Force means the severity of flood. Equation (5) may be simplified by
substituting zero or 1.0 for force. In the equations that follow, HF stands for High
Force and LF stands for Low force (DeKay 1993).
If the PAR is located in a canyon, where the floodwater is likely to be very
deep and swift, Force equals 1.0, and equation (5) reduces to the following:
LOLHF =
1 + 13.277( PARHF )
PARHF
EXP[2.982(WTHF ) 3.790]
0.440
(6)
On the other hand, if the PAR is located on a plain, where the floodwater is
likely to be shallow and slow, Force equals zero, and equation (5) reduces to:
LOLLF =
PARLF
1 + 13.277( PARLF ) 0.440 EXP[0.759(WTLF )]
(7)
Two problems need to be solved. The first one is the value of PAR, which is
not equal to the total population. The second problem is about the WT, which is
difficult to obtain in the real situation.
In order to obtain PAR, another physically-based human-water interaction
model (Lind 2000) for human beings to stay stable in a flow is introduced. The
human body is modeled mechanically by a rigid solid circular cylinder of a uniform
density equal to the density of water. The model human stands on a thin, weightless
rigid foot that protrudes a distance downstream from the center of gravity of the body.
Based on experimental data of Abt et al. (1989), and Karvonen et al. (2000), the
critical conditions of water depth, h, and velocity, v, to maintain human stability in
water flow were obtained. hvcr ranges from 0.65 to 2.13 m2/s with a sample mean
of 1.22 m2/sec and a COV of 0.27. In this case, 1.22 m2/s is selected as the critical
condition of human stability.
Two assumptions are made to deal with PAR. First, people who cannot stay
stably in water flow are at risk. Second, the population is uniformly distributed from
the river bank to a certain distance depending on terrain conditions. After simulations
using HEC-RAS, data of water depth and velocity can be obtained in both the
floodplain and the main channel in one cross section, as shown in Fig. 6.
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AreaPAR
Population
AreaWhole
(8)
With the methods introduced in the previous sections, we can calculate the
potential LOL in the three different cases. Before doing so, we have one problem
unsolved, which is the warning time, WT. In the real case, warning time was as long
as several days, so no LOL happened along the river downstream. In this paper, three
cases are assumed for warning time: time from the start of breaching, time when the
peak flow occurs at the dam site, and no warning time. The results of loss of lives in
the three cases are shown in Tables 2-4, respectively.
Table 2. Loss of lives in the real case with different warning times
Location
Population
PAR
(person) (person)
Beichuan
Tongkou
Hanzeng
Qianlian
Longfeng
Shima
Mianyang
30000
7300
10000
16300
15000
20500
1127000
14926
0
0
903
1484
0
0
Total
1226100
17312
LOL
(person)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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(h)
0.17
1.00
1.17
1.67
2.17
2.67
3.00
LOL
(person)
428
0
0
1
0
0
0
430
No warning
WT
(h)
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
LOL
(person)
691
0
0
129
175
0
0
996
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Table 3. Loss of lives in the medium erodibility case with different warning
times
Location
Population
(person)
PAR
(person)
Beichuan
Tongkou
Hanzeng
Qianlian
Longfeng
Shima
Mianyang
Total
30000
7300
10000
16300
15000
20500
1127000
1226100
25578
974
1764
3750
4276
2351
0
38693
No warning
WT
(h)
LOL
(person)
WT
(h)
LOL
(person)
WT
(h)
LOL
(person)
5.25
5.83
6.17
6.67
7.17
7.50
8.00
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.08
0.67
1.00
1.50
2.00
2.33
2.67
742
21
11
4
1
0
0
779
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
944
135
195
307
332
232
0
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Table 4. Loss of lives in the upper bound of 75% confidence level, medium
erodibility case
Location
Population
PAR
(person) (person)
Beichuan
Tongkou
Hanzeng
Qianlian
Longfeng
Shima
Mianyang
30000
7300
10000
16300
15000
20500
1127000
30000
3965
7526
11607
11611
9521
130921
Total
1226100
205151
LOL
(person)
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
WT
(h)
0.05
0.67
1.00
1.50
2.00
2.33
2.50
LOL
(person)
896
47
25
7
2
1
0
977
No warning
WT
(h)
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
LOL
(person)
1035
317
464
597
597
532
55
3598
From the results in the three tables, the following observations can be made:
(1) The PAR is very sensitive to the peak flow rate. It changes from 17312 people in
the real case, to 38693 people in the second case and 205151 people in the third
case, with the peak flow rates being 6526 m3/s, 10840 m3/s, and 35470 m3/s,
respectively.
(2) The LOL is quite sensitive to the warning time. If the warning time is sufficient,
very few LOL might occur, whereas the LOL becomes very large if no warning
time is available. In the real case, the Beichuan Town was severely flooded, but
no casualty was caused because the PAR was evacuated ahead of time.
(3) Even if there is no warning time, the fatality rate (LOL/PAR) is still just 1.75% in
the third case. That may be because a large number of people are located far
away from the dam site and in the low force (plain) areas.
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(4) There is no PAR in Mianyang in the first two cases, because the peak flow rates
from the dam breach are smaller than the 100-year-return flood rate of 14600
m3/s in Mianyang.
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CONCLUSIONS
Tangjiashan Landslide Dam is the largest one induced by the Ms 8.0
Wenchuan Earthquake, which threats more than 1.3 million people downstream.
Attempting to find the consequences of failure when breaching starts with a
discharge channel and when breaching starts in a natural way, three breach sizes are
studied in this paper. The analysis is divided into three steps. First, different
breaching progressions are obtained based on three sets of breaching parameters.
Second, flood routing for the three cases is simulated using a river hydraulic program,
which provides flow rate, flow velocity, and water depth in the inundation zone.
Finally, potential loss of lives is estimated based on a combined model, and detailed
results at seven locations are tabulated.
Based on the results of simulation, the peak flow rate is sensitive to the
erodibility of landslide dams, as the breach size would increase and the breaching
time would decrease with a higher erodibility. The PAR is affected by peak flow rate,
as a larger area would be submerged, and deeper water and faster water flow would
occur associated with a larger peak flow rate. The LOL is significantly influenced by
the warning time. If enough warning time is given, the LOL could be very small or
even zero. For Tangjiashan Landslide Dam, the peak flow rate would be much larger,
and the potential loss of lives would be much more if the discharge channel was not
excavated.
There was no casualty in the real case due to the excavation of the discharge
channel to reduce the water level, sufficient warning time, and effective evacuation.
Yet it is meaningful to evaluate the risks in some possible cases involving different
warning times. The quantitative risk analysis for Tangjiashan Landslide Dam
provides a better understanding what would happen if another similar landslide dam
event occurs.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The research was substantially supported by the State Key Laboratory of
Geohazard Prevention & Geoenvironment Protection (2008CB425801), the National
Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50828901), and the Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology (PRC06/07.EG19). Special thanks are due to Mr. Fan Liu
and Mr. Dongsheng Chang for providing information about several landslide dams
caused by the Wenchuan Earthquake, and Mr. Yao Xu for useful discussions.
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