Reprint

Dam Safety. Overtopping and Geostructural Risks

Edited by
November 2022
270 pages
  • ISBN978-3-0365-5655-0 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-0365-5656-7 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Dam Safety. Overtopping and Geostructural Risks that was published in

Biology & Life Sciences
Chemistry & Materials Science
Engineering
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Public Health & Healthcare
Summary

This reprintshows recent advances in dam safety related to overtopping and the prevention, detection, and risk assessment of geostructural risks.

Related to overtopping, the issues treated are: the throughflow and failure process of rockfill dams; the protection of embankment dams against overtopping by means of a rockfill toe or wedge-shaped blocks; and the protection of concrete dams with highly convergent chutes.

In the area of geostructural threats, the detection of anomalies in dam behavior from monitoring data using a combination of machine learning techniques, the numerical modeling of seismic behavior of concrete dams, and the determination of the impact area downstream of ski-jump spillways are also studied and discussed.

In relation to risk assessment, three chapters deal with the development of fragility curves for dikes and dams in relation to various failure mechanisms.

Format
  • Hardback
License and Copyright
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
hydraulic structure; sky-jump; spillway; flip bucket; chute; basin; erosion; flow rate; jet flow; wave overtopping; erosion; levee; cover; probabilistic framework; levee; slope stability; piping; overtopping; fragility curves; Monte Carlo simulation; spillway; dam; stilling basin; bucket; chute; flood; weir; safety; protection; dam protection; wedge-shaped block; WSB; overtopping; dam protection; dam spillway; dam safety; ACUÑA; rockfill dams; dam safety; throughflow; numerical modeling; non-Darcy flow; porous media; Forchheimer equation; non-Darcy flow; high velocity; crushed rock; rounded materials; hydraulic mean radius; intrinsic permeability; shape of particles; angularity of particles; surface roughness of particles; fragility curves; river levees; geogrid reinforcement; First Order Reliability Method (FORM); Surface Response Method (SRM); slope stability; hydraulic structure; high gravity dams; dam-foundation-reservoir dynamic interaction; earthquake input mechanisms; hydrodynamic pressure; foundation size; reservoir length; stacking; blending; combination; meta-learner; experts; machine learning; Cross Validation; radial displacement; rockfill dam; overtopping; dam failure; overflow; dam safety; floods; dam breach; n/a