This paper provides an overview of the US Army Corps of Engineers’guidance for seismic design and evaluation of concrete dams, as presented in the Engineer Manual EM1110-2-6053.

<p>As earthquake ground shaking affects all elements and components of a hydropower project, i.e. the dam body, appurtenant structures, underground works, and all hydromechanical and electromechanical components etc. at the same time, the earthquake load case ...

<p>Decisions involving complex systems with not well-known properties are complicated by the fact that epistemic uncertainties and risk regulations vary over time in an uncertain way. In practice, one often makes approximations by fixing the epistemic variables ...