Research Article

Research on the Overtopping-Induced Breaching Mechanism of Tailings Dam and Its Numerical Simulation

Table 3

Comparison between the calculated results and the measured results.

 Measured dataCalculated results
Qp (m3/s)B (m)b (m)tp (h)Qp (m3/s)B (m)b (m)tp (h)

Case 121.889.05.00.1323.219.214.830.124
Case 219.079.34.60.1419.649.784.460.149