<p>The purpose of this guideline is to assist dam owners to determine the most appropriate consequence of failure classification for dams in their jurisdiction in a manner that is consistent across the province.<br />This guideline is intended to be a companion ...

<p>The Mw=9.0 Tohoku Earthquake resulted in failures of the two dams impounding Fujinuma Lake, in Fukushima Prefecture. After the event, several mechanisms were postulated regarding the failure modes of the dams. The authors have performed numerical dynamic ...

This report aims to help those responsible for the safety of reservoirs. These include engineers appointed under current legislation, personnel who visit reservoirs in the course of their duties, staff who operate and monitor reservoirs, and enforcement authority ...

<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 ...

This paper reviews the creep ratio concept suggested by Lane (1934) and added new case histories to expand his database. Lane (1934) selected conservative values of safe creep ratios because of the small number of dam failures in his database, which is prudent. ...

<p>The vulnerability to internal erosion of a 100-year old typical British embankment dam without filters has been examined using seven methods. Four assessed the potential of the shoulder fill, a low permeability till, to act as a filter and prevent erosion ...

<p>Dam break inundation mapping is the first part of the assessment of the consequences of failure of a dam. Although there has been significant expenditure on research on the breach hydrograph, there has been little attention given to the influence of infrastructure ...

This paper describes characteristics of tailings ponds, highlighting situations and events that weaken such facilities, and provides a method for calculating the destructive capacity of tailings flow slides from failed facilities.

<p>Teton Dam failed during its first filling on 5 June 1976. The 405-ft high dam was designed and built using modern standards; therefore its failure received considerable scrutiny from engineering experts. Failure mechanisms suggested included hydraulic fracture, ...

Investigation of the decrease of foundation clay shear strength from fully softened to residual after cyclic loading of reservoir filling and emptying of the San Luis Dam.