Landslide Hazard Controlled by Water-Rock Interaction and Risk Assessment in Hydropower Development

Dear Colleagues,

Advances in hydropower are being increasingly exploited in mountainous regions, where a large number of landslide hazards are associated with complex hydrological dynamics and active tectonics. Rainfall and the water level of reservoirs fluctuate as the typical disturbances caused by major hydropower engineering lead to periodic infiltration and exfiltration within the hillslope, which can further induce slope movements regardless of the rock slope or landslide deposits. Water–rock interactions are significantly implicated in these hydrological and geological processes, facilitating chemical and physical weathering that eventually results in rock deterioration and slope destabilization. As a result, the complicated factors contributing to the control or collapse of these processes and the potential hazard chains pose a challenge to the development of robust risk assessments, especially in high-relief areas. In order to develop reliable and effective tools for the assessment of potential hazards and their evolution in engineering areas with complex environments, the mechanism and kinematics of catastrophic landslide hazards induced by advances in hydropower must be evaluated. It is also crucial to develop robust approaches to risk assessment for the purpose of regional disaster prevention and mitigation.

The scope of this Special Issue, entitled “Landslide Hazard Controlled by Water-rock Interaction and Risk Assessment in Hydropower Development”, includes the development of landslide hazards in critical hydropower engineering areas according to the geomorphology, geology, environment, hydrology and rock deterioration present, and risk assessments and early warning systems for hazard evolution using artificial intelligence, monitoring, numerical simulation, reliability-based analysis, and other advanced techniques or approaches. Scholars are also welcome to submit research addressing hazard chains such as natural dam formation, dam breaches, and outburst flood evolution.

Dr. Siyuan Zhao
Dr. Tengyuan Zhao
Dr. Sixiang Ling
Dr. Xingbo Zhou
Guest Editors

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