A method for analyzing the overtopping failure of earth-rock dams based on the
material point method belongs to the field of numerical
simulation technology in
civil engineering and hydraulics. The steps are as follows: S1, read in the material point information for each zone, background mesh information, material constitutive models and parameters of the material points, load information of the material points, and related calculation parameters; S2, based on the material point adaptive mapping technique, update the position and
momentum of the material points in each
time step; S3, calculate the equivalent plastic strain of the material points, consider the fluid-
solid transformation of the material points in the dam area through the
strength reduction method, and update the stress of the material points according to the constitutive models of the material points in each zone; S4, repeat S2 and S3 until all time steps are completed, and output the deformation and
reservoir water level changes at typical moments during the overtopping failure process of the earth-rock dam. This invention uses adaptive mapping to improve the computational efficiency of large-scale problems, effectively reflects the scouring effect of
reservoir water on the dam slope during the overtopping process, and reasonably reproduces the evolution process of the overtopping failure of earth-rock dams.