Overview
- Describes key procedures for assessing dam safety
- Discusses the most important types of failure modes
- Offers a practice-oriented guide to numerical methods for risk assessment of dams
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering (SPRTRCIENG)
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About this book
This book offers a timely report on methods for risk assessment procedures for dams, with a special emphasis on dams with small storage dimensions. It starts by introducing all important definitions relating to dams, dam safety, such as the most common failure modes, and risks. In turn, it describes in detail the most important evaluation procedures for various failure modes such as piping, flood, earthquake and stability are described in this chapter. Consequence assessment procedures, together with the different steps of the risk evaluation process, are analyzed, providing a guide on how to identify the appropriate failure mode for the examined dam and setting up the appropriate safety plan. The book introduces the most common methods for predicting peak breach discharge, analyzing some relevant case studies. Upon comparing the findings obtained with the different methods, the book concludes with some general suggestions and ideas for future developments. This book fills an important gap between theoretical works and real-life problems being investigating in practical research studies on dam safety and risk management. It provides readers with the necessary knowledge on risk analysis and shows how to apply this in practice to carry out dam safety studies. It offers practical guidelines to set up risk assessment procedures for different failure modes and predicting failure parameters such as failure time, peak breach discharge and breach width.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Risk Assessment of Dams
Authors: Aytaç Güven, Alper Aydemir
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47139-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47138-5Published: 28 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47141-5Published: 29 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47139-2Published: 27 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2366-259X
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2603
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 80
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation