Considering shortage of historical data and many complicated influence factors about loss of life caused by dam breach

an evaluation model of loss-of-life caused by dam breach based on support vector machine is put forward.In this paper

loss of life caused by dam breach is defined as the product of people at risk and death rate.Five important factors affecting loss of life are analyzed.The evaluation index system is established.Learning samples are constructed on the basis of historical data of eight breached dams in China.Leave one out cross validation shows accuracy of the evaluation method.