<p>Dams play a vital role in our lives. They meet demand for drinking, irrigation and industrial water supply; they control floods, increase dry-weather flows in rivers and creeks and give opportunities for various recreational activities. But besides being ...

<p>This Code provides practical guidance for persons conducting a business or undertaking on how to manage the health and safety risks associated with excavation work. This Code applies to all types of excavation work, including bulk excavations more than ...

<p>These guidelines are prepared pursuant to s. 342 of the Act for failure impact assessment of water storage dams and issued by the chief executive of the Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM). The Act can be accessed on the internet.</p ...

The purpose of this circular is to provide the results of a recently completed study to geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists responsible for managing and mitigating rockfalls.

The Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Soil and Rock Instrumentation Committee initiated the development of an e-circular on the use of inclinometers to facilitate technology transfer to state department of transportation (DOT) engineers and researchers ...

<p>Tunnels lined with concrete formed on site are subject to ageing and developments that may endanger their stability, functions, safety and the required level of service. A certain number of defects are inevitably noted during or after tunnel construction. ...

<p>The purpose of this guide is to provide an advisory document for the design, construction and control of concrete structures reinforced with FRP bars. The approach followed is that of the limit states semi-probabilistic method, while the format adopted ...

The Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority Gandhinagar and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur are happy to present the IITK-GSDMA Guidelines on Seismic Design of Earth Dams and Embankments to the professional engineering community in the country. ...

<p>The purpose of this document is to give guidance for the design and construction of foundations in Hong Kong. It is aimed at professionals and supervisory personnel involved in the design and construction of foundations. The document has been prepared on ...

<p>A research programme has been carried out by RMT in support of the revision of Part 2 of the British Standard for strata reinforcement support system components used in coal mines, specification for birdcaged cablebolting. The present standard is written ...