1st Edition
Instrumentation, Monitoring and Surveillance: Embankment Dams
292 Pages
by
CRC Press
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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Besides giving an historical introduction to embankment dams the book describes the need for instrumentation, planning procurement and installation practices of instruments. The significance of visual inspection and techniques, of monitoring various parameters, seepage, pore pressure, surface and internal displacements, earth pressures and seismic behaviour, through instrumentation has been... Read more
Preface
1. Types of Embankment Dams and their Selection
2. Need for Instrumentation
3. Static and Dynamic Analysis of Embankment Dams
4. Selection of Location and Types of Instruments
5. Techniques of Monitoring
6. Installation of Instruments
7. Collection and Processing of Data
8. Selected Case Histories
References
Index
Biography
A.D.M Penman
