Risk Assessment of Dams (Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering)

✍ Scribed by Aytaç Güven, Alper Aydemir

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 85
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a timely report on methods for risk assessment procedures for dams, with a special emphasis on dams with small storage dimensions. It starts by introducing all important definitions relating to dams, dam safety, such as the most common failure modes, and risks. In turn, it describes in detail the most important evaluation procedures for various failure modes such as piping, flood, earthquake and stability are described in this chapter. Consequence assessment procedures, together with the different steps of the risk evaluation process, are analyzed, providing a guide on how to identify the appropriate failure mode for the examined dam and setting up the appropriate safety plan. The book introduces the most common methods for predicting peak breach discharge, analyzing some relevant case studies. Upon comparing the findings obtained with the different methods, the book concludes with some general suggestions and ideas for future developments. This book fills an important gap between theoretical works and real-life problems being investigating in practical research studies on dam safety and risk management. It provides readers with the necessary knowledge on risk analysis and shows how to apply this in practice to carry out dam safety studies. It offers practical guidelines to set up risk assessment procedures for different failure modes and predicting failure parameters such as failure time, peak breach discharge and breach width.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
About the Authors
1 Dams
1.1 Risk Assessment of Dams
1.1.1 Introduction
1.2 Definition of Dams
1.3 History of Dams
1.3.1 History of Dams by Type
1.3.2 History of Dams in Turkey
1.3.3 Benefits of Dams
1.3.4 Flood Control
1.3.5 Hydropower
1.3.6 Irrigation
1.4 Classification of Dams
1.4.1 Classification of Dams on Size
1.4.2 Classification of Dams by Height
1.4.3 Classification of Dams by Construction Purpose
1.4.4 According to Hydraulic Design
1.4.5 Classification of Dams by Design of Dam Body
1.4.6 Classification of Dams by Body Material
1.4.7 Dams in the World
1.4.8 Dams in Turkey
1.4.9 Definition of Small Dams
1.4.10 Environmental Negative Impacts of Dams
2 Dam Safety
2.1 Risk, Hazard and Vulnerability
2.1.1 Definition of Risk
2.2 Hazard
2.2.1 Hazard Potential
2.2.2 Hazard Potential Classification System
2.3 Risk Assessment
2.4 Dam Safety Studies
2.5 Failure Modes of Dams
2.5.1 Flood
2.5.2 Earthquake
2.5.3 Overtopping
2.5.4 Piping
2.5.5 Normal Stability
2.6 Problems and Solutions for Urgent Action Recommended Situations
3 Risk Assessment of Dams
3.1 Risk Prioritization of Dams
3.1.1 General
3.1.2 Process Outline
3.1.3 Definitions of Mostly Used Terms in Dam Safety
3.1.4 Failure Mode Evaluation
3.1.5 Failure Mode Descriptions and Evaluation
3.1.6 Consequence Assessment
3.1.7 Life Loss Potential
4 Dam Failure Modelling Parameters
4.1 Prediction of Dam Failure Parameters
4.1.1 Some Important Variables
4.1.2 Calculation and Implementation of the Model Parameters
4.1.3 Peak Breach Discharge
4.1.4 Breach Width
4.1.5 Failure Time
4.1.6 Breach Side Slope Factor
5 Dam Breach Parameter Estimation: Case Studies
5.1 Applications of Breach Parameter Prediction Methods
5.1.1 Case Study 1: Kayacık Dam
5.1.2 Case Study 2: Karaova Dam
5.1.3 Case Study 3: Çoğun Dam
5.1.4 Comparison of Dam Breach Prediction Methods
5.2 Comparison of Dam Breach Prediction Methods Results
5.2.1 Suggestions About Dam Risk Assessment Studies
References
Index