• The Malpasset Dam was an arch dam (convex surface facing upstream) on the Reyran River, north of Fréjus on the French Riviera.
  • Indeed, the Malpasset Dam failure shed light on a problem in dam construction, likely preventing the failure of many others.
  • Malpasset Dam was a concrete arch dam located on the Riveria in the Cannes District near Fréjus, in Southern France.
  • The algorithms are validated by simulating the Malpasset dam-break flood (France, 1959), which has served as a benchmark problem previously.
  • Malpasset Dam is a double-curvature arch dam, fresh water dam and concrete dam that was completed in 1954. The project is located in Malpasset, Fréjus, Var...
  • 26/11: The Literary Year 1959 4/12 : History of dams 5/12: The rupture of the Malpasset dam 12/12 : The 1959 film year. Remembrance Walk.
  • The Malpasset Dam was an arch dam in Fréjus, France . The structure was built between 1952 and 1954 to provide drinking and irrigation water for the region.
  • Below the Dam Immediately below the dam were a couple of isolated houses, the hamlet of Malpasset, the Bozon mining hamlet and the autoroute construction site.
  • The cause of the rupture of the Malpasset dam was no longer classed as a natural disaster, as it has been affirmed for decades, but an attack committed by...
  • The 66.5 m high, double curvature concrete arch dam at Malpasset was completed about 1954. Its first filling took place very slowly.
  • The Malpasset dam is a concrete arch dam with a base width of 6.90 m for a height of 60 m placing it in the thin-walled structures category.
  • The Malpasset Dam is known for the disaster it caused on the 2nd December, 1959. Today it's the end point of the hike leading up to the ruins.