1st Edition
New Developments in Dam Engineering Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Dam Engineering, 18-20 October, Nanjing, China
1240 Pages
by
CRC Press
The development of water resources is a key element in the socio-economic development of many regions in the world. Water availability and rainfall are unequally distributed both in space and time, so dams play a vital role, there being few viable alternatives for storing water. Dams hold a prime place in satisfying the ever-increasing demand for power, irrigation and drinking water, for... Read more
Foreword
Preface
Conference organization
History of the conference
Keynote papers
- Limit states assessment for earthquake resistance of gravity dams based on crack propagation analysis
- Continuous compaction control (CCC) for fill dams and roller compacted concrete dams
- Some recent innovative techniques in the design and construction of high dams in China
- Design and study on the layout of the Three Gorges Project of the Yangtze river
- Development of theory and methods on high dam structural analysis
- Dynamic and pseudo-static failure analyses of embankment dams
- Summarization of Xiluodu concrete arch dam design
- Dam safety aspects of reservoir-triggered seismicity
- Benefits of strong motion instrumentation of large dams
Technical papers
Author index
Biography
Martin Wieland, Qingwen Ren, John S.Y. Tan
