Concrete dam engineering involves a multidisciplinary approach to ensure structural integrity, durability and safety. Recent advancements have focused on understanding the complex interplay between ...

The extreme rainfall of October 2015 in South Carolina generated numerous dam failures and spawned the flood of record at most U.S. Geological Survey stream gauges. Detailed field sampling and ...

An interim report from the Association of State Dam Safety Officials reports that a clear factor in the failures of two dams built in the 1920s was static liquefaction (flow) instability of saturated, ...

Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams is written for graduate students, researcher and professor engineers, and offers a comprehensive and integrated view of current procedures and methods for the ...

Yida Zhang is deeply passionate about assessing the stability of dams, but his approach is unconventional. Rather than studying the large aging structures, his research zeroes in on the tiny sand ...

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced that it has begun taking applications for $7.5 billion in credit assistance from a new program that aims to help nonfederal government agencies, ...