Advances in Dam Engineering of the 21st Century
A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 20466
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Interests: concrete dams; appurtenant structures for dams; seismic analysis; finite element analysis; nonlinear models
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2. President of Turkish Society on Dam Safety, Ankara, Turkey
Interests: dam safety; embankment dams; internal erosion
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2. College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: advanced analysis of infrastructures; earthquake engineering; scientific machine learning; coupled systems mechanics; uncertainty quantification and resilience
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Interests: climate change; concrete; rock and soil material sciences; construction works; dam engineering; design criteria; emergency planning; hydro-operations; numerical analyses; renewable energy; risk mitiga
2. Chair, Dam Safety Committee of ICOLD, 20 West Chegongzhuang Road, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: embankment dams; numerical analysis; dam safety; geotechnical engineering
Interests: rockfill dams (CFRD, ECRD, ACRD); embankment dams; tailings dams; numerical analysis; seismic analysis; geotechnical engineering; instrumentation and monitoring; laboratory and insitu testing; liquefaction; grouting
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Dam construction and operations have evolved greatly, and the goals of dam engineering have been refined over the past decades, primarily affected by increased demand for fresh water and clean energy production, hydrologic extremes caused by climate change, ageing infrastructure, a need for more economical use of resources, and higher expectations for ecological and safety standards. Therefore, the role and the responsibility of the engineering community in the 21st century has been influenced by all these challenges.
Thanks to the recent, accelerated technological progress, primarily in the analysis and design methods for dams, laboratory and field-testing techniques, manufacturing and quality control of materials for dams, new construction techniques, monitoring and surveillance techniques, and a comprehensive dam safety approach, engineers can offer attractive solutions to the appearing problems.
In this Special Issue on “Advances in Dam Engineering of the 21st Century”, we would like to invite researchers and engineers to submit papers focused on the latest advances in dam engineering. We welcome both theoretical and practical papers of high technical standard for various aspects of dam engineering, thus facilitating an awareness of modern techniques and methods in the area of interest. We sincerely invite high-quality submissions of original research as well as review articles that have the potential for practical application.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Design and construction of new high and ultra high dams;
- Raising of existing concrete, embankment, rockfill, and CFRD dams;
- Design of dams in challenging geological conditions and foundation improvements;
- Advances in construction methods for dams;
- Condition assessments for aging dams, including material degradation such as concrete swelling, etc.;
- Rehabilitation and strengthening of dams and dam appurtenant structures;
- Advances in analysis techniques for dams, including verification and validation procedures;
- New construction materials and ecofriendly design measures;
- Progress in soil and rock mechanics;
- Piping in embankment dams and dispersive soil phenomena;
- Implementation of geomembranes and other techniques in seepage prevention for embankment, rockfill, and concrete dams;
- Incidents and accidents in dams (i.e., lessons learned);
- Instrumentation, monitoring, surveillance, collection and processing of data, and the use of BIM technologies;
- Advances in techniques for hydrologic and hydraulic analysis;
- Flood safety, including overtopping of dams, foundation erosion, and design of countermeasures;
- New perspectives on seismology, geodesy, and seismic load determination;
- Quantification of various hazard sources (e.g., earthquake, flood, aging);
- Dam safety and risk-informed decision making;
- Emergency planning;
- Impact of climate change on dams and reservoirs.
Dr. Jerzy Salamon
Prof. Dr. Hasan Tosun
Dr. M. Amin Hariri-Ardebili
Dr. Russell Michael Gunn
Prof. Dr. Zeping Xu
Prof. Dr. Camilo Marulanda E.
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Keywords
- dams
- dam appurtenant structures
- raises and modifications to dams
- aging
- safety
- advanced analysis methods
- verification and validation process
- earthquakes
- new materials for dams
- advances in soil and rock mechanics
- foundation improvements
- advances in construction techniques
- monitoring
- data acquisition and processing
- hydrology
- hydraulic
- impact of climate change
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