Dam Protections against Overtopping and Accidental Leakage

Preface
Acknowledgements
Scientific and Organizing Committees
Organizing institutions
Supporting institutions
Sponsoring company

Keynote lectures

Technical manual: Overtopping protection for dams
T.E. Hepler

Review of embankment dam protections and a design methodology for downstream rockfill toes
R. Morán

Flood overtopping protection for concrete dams
W.R. Fiedler

Failure of embankment dams due to overtopping or accidental leakage

Dam failures of embankment dams caused by overtopping or accidental leakage – New aspects for breach widening and deepening processes
A. Vogel, J.-R. Courivaud & K. Jarecka

Failure of dams due to overtopping – A historical prospective
M.J. Harris

Overtopping and internal erosion on small dams in Burkina Faso
A. Nombré, E.A. Somda, M. Kabore & F. Millogo

Failure of the downstream shoulder of rockfill dams in overtopping or accidental leakage scenario
M.Á. Toledo, H. Campos, Á. Lara & R. Cobo

Structural failure of the clay core or the upstream face of rockfill dams in overtopping scenario
M.Á. Toledo, R.M. Alves & R. Morán

Simulation of the beginning of failure in rockfill dams caused by overtopping
A. Larese, R. Rossi & E. Oñate

CFD study of the time dependent flow pattern around the slope of rockfill dams in overtopping scenario
J. San Mauro, M.Á. Toledo & R. Morán

Soft protections for embankment dams

Design of overtopping-resistant rockfill dams
M.Á. Toledo & L. Morera

Isoresistant double slope for the optimization of overtopping-resistant rockfill dams
M.Á. Toledo & L. Morera

Practical challenges and experience from large-scale overtopping tests with placed riprap
P.H. Hiller & L. Lia

Hard protections for embankment dams

Continuously-reinforced concrete slab spillways built over embankment dams in Spain: Molino de la Hoz and Llodio Dams
R.M. Alves & R. Morán

Comprehensive literature review on dam overtopping incidents
N. Tavakoli

Barriga Dam spillway: a case study of wedge-shaped blocks technology
R. Morán & M.Á. Toledo

Physical and numerical modeling for understanding the hydraulic behaviour ofWedge-Shaped-Blocks spillways
F.J. Caballero, F. Salazar, J. San Mauro & M.Á. Toledo

Masonry dams failure due to overtopping and its protections

Failures of masonry or concrete dams by overtopping
A. Vogel, F. Laugier & E. Bourdarot

Laboratory measurements and numerical simulations of overtopping nappe impingement jets
J.M. Carrillo & L.G. Castillo

Characterization of the dynamic actions and scour estimation downstream of a dam
L.G. Castillo & J.M. Carrillo

Highly-converging chutes as an overtopping protection for concrete dams: physical and numerical modelling
L. Morera, J. San Mauro, F. Salazar & M.Á. Toledo

Miscellaneous

Probabilistic methods for hydrologic dam safety analysis
I. Flores, A. Sordo-Ward & L. Garrote

Two-dimensional direct rainfall hydraulic models applied to direct calculation of hydrologic events in dams to prevent overtopping
P. Batanero, I. Martínez & E. Martínez

CFD analysis of flow pattern in labyrinth weirs
F. Salazar, J. San Mauro, E. Oñate & M.Á. Toledo

Analysis of the design of energy-dissipating structure in spillways
I. Robles, A. Palacio & A. Rodríguez

Author index

Biography

Miguel Ángel Toledo & Rafael Morán, Department of Civil Engineering: Hydraulics, Energy and Environment E.T.S. de Ingenieros de Caminos, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Eugenio Oñate, International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Barcelona, Spain.