Research Article

SPH Simulation of Structures Impacted by Tailing Debris Flow and Its Application to the Buffering Effect Analysis of Debris Checking Dams

Table 1

Parameters used in the SPH simulation of tailing flow.

Mud density (kg/m3)Fine tailing density (kg/m3)Coarse tailing density (kg/m3)Young’s modulus of tailings (GPa)The angle of internal friction of tailings Cohesion strength C (kPa)Total number of particles NUnit time step Dt (s)Constant applied to the smoothing length of the particlesTerminal time DT (s)

1690169021001626.10.8160004 × 10−41.0514.0