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Binaya Raj Pandey, Helmut Knoblauch and Gerald Zenz
Rapid Draw-Down (RDD) in an earthfill dam has serious implications for dam safety regarding slope stability issues. The evaluation of reservoir draw-down impact on slope stability was carried out with the Limit Equilibrium Method (LEM) and stress-based F...
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Ziyang Li, Wei Ye, Miroslav Marence and Jeremy D. Bricker
Climate change with extreme hydrological conditions, such as drought and flood, bring new challenges to seepage behavior and the stability of earthfill dams. Taking a drought-stricken earthfill dam of China as an example, the influence of drought-flood c...
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Stella Pytharouli, Panagiotis Michalis and Spyridon Raftopoulos
Unprecedented flooding events put dams and downstream communities at risk, as evidenced by the recent cases of the Oroville and Whaley bridge dams. Empirical models may describe expected ?normal? dam behaviour, but they do not account for changes due to ...
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Jing Li, Ameen Mohammed Salih Ameen, Thamer Ahmad Mohammad, Nadhir Al-Ansari and Zaher Mundher Yaseen
Dam operation and management have become more complex recently because of the need for considering hydraulic structure sustainability and environmental protect on. An Earthfill dam that includes a powerhouse system is considered as a significant multipur...
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