Waves generated by rock falls into reservoirs

Since the Vaiont Dam disaster in 1963, there has been an awareness among design engineers of the rockfall problem, where a large landslide into shallow water can generate water waves of appreciable size. The prediction of landslide properties, like size and speed, is qualitative. However, for a give...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cornwall, M. W. M.
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Engineering 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9512