Abstract:The development of innovative flood-retaining equipment is crucial for defending against urbanflood disasters and ensuring the safety of urban lifelines. Using numerical simulation methods, thisstudy investigates the impact of the curvature of curved urban emergency flood-control barriers ontheir structural stress characteristics and further optimizes the barrier structure. The results indicatethat under the same water-blocking conditions, as the curvature of the barriers increases, the stressthey endure gradually decreases, and their deformation significantly improves. Building on these findings,an optimization scheme was proposed. The proposed optimized scheme met operational conditionsunder water depths less than 0.8 m and flow velocities less than 1.0 m/s. Under these conditions,the structural stress remained below the yield stress of the materials, meeting the requirementsfor safe and stable water-blocking. These findings provide a valuable reference for the optimized designof curved urban emergency flood-control barriers.