Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 protection of man, property and environment from catastrophic floods, and for regulating the flow of rivers. Dams have contributed to the development of civilization for over 2,000 years. Worldwide there are some 45,000 large dams listed by ICOLD, which have a height over 15 meters. Today, in western countries, where most of the water resources have been developed, the safety of the existing dams and measures for extending their economical life are of prime concern. In developing countries the focus is on the construction of new dams. The proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Dam Engine
Table of Contents
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
