Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that
the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and …

Dams are constructed for economic development, and their construction involves large
investments of money, and natural and human resources. Of the various types of dams …

A dam may fail when the loading exceeds the resistance against overtopping, internal
erosion, slope instability, sliding/overturning, excessive deformation etc. To investigate the …

The study of dam-break analysis is considered important to predict the peak discharge
during dam failure. This is essential to assess economic, social and environmental impacts …

A procedure is presented for calculating the costs of failure of a dam and for incorporating
these risk costs into the evaluation process. Basically, it involves a calculation of expected …

The Hoek-Brown criterion. first published in 1980 and updated several times since, is now in
widespread use throughout the geotechnical community. The authors have an interest in …

A combination of Geological mapping and two-dimensional electrical resistivity (2D-ER)
surveys was applied to study the Unilorin Dam and its environment. The purpose of the …

ABSTRACT The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is constructed in a
mountainous area where limited information has been collected on key environmental …

At the present state-of-the-art every dam which impounds water has a potential of failure and
there is an urgent need for predicting the magnitude, shape, duration, and other parameters …

Establishing a geotechnical rationale for an embankment overflow is challenging. The
occurrence of embankment overflow is deemed unlikely since the initial highest water level …