Dam Protections Against Overtopping and Accidental Leakage

Herausgeber: Toledo, Miguel Ángel; Oñate, Eugenio; Morán, Rafael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive summary of dam protections, covering case studies and applied research worldwide, and will be invaluable to professionals and academics in Dam Engineering.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781138028081
• ISBN-10: 1138028088
• Artikelnr.: 42236814

Autorenporträt

Miguel Ángel Toledo & Rafael Morán, Department of Civil Engineering: Hydraulics, Energy and Environment E.T.S. de Ingenieros de Caminos, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Eugenio Oñate, International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Barcelona, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Keynote lectures: Technical manual: Overtopping protection for
dams; Review of embankment dam protections and a design methodology for
downstream rockfill toes; Flood overtopping protection for concrete dams;
Failure of embankment dams due to overtopping or accidental leakage; Dam
failures of embankment dams caused by overtopping or accidental leakage
-New aspects for breach widening and deepening processes; Failure of dams
due to overtopping - A historical prospective; Overtopping and internal
erosion on small dams in Burkina Faso; Failure of the downstream shoulder
of rockfill dams in overtopping or accidental leakage scenario; Structural
failure of the clay core or the upstream face of rockfill dams in
overtopping scenario; Simulation of the beginning of failure in rockfill
dams caused by overtopping; CFD study of the time dependent flow pattern
around the slope of rockfill dams in overtopping scenario; Soft protections
for embankment dams: Design of overtopping-resistant rockfill dams;
Isoresistant double slope for the optimization of overtopping-resistant
rockfill dams; Practical challenges and experience from large-scale
overtopping tests with placed riprap; Hard protections for embankment dams:
Continuously-reinforced concrete slab spillways built over embankment dams
in Spain: Molino de la Hoz and Llodio Dams; Comprehensive literature review
on dam overtopping incidents; Barriga Dam spillway: a case study of
wedge-shaped blocks technology; Physical and numerical modeling for
understanding the hydraulic behaviour of Wedge-Shaped-Blocks spillways;
Masonry dams failure due to overtopping and its protections Failures of
masonry or concrete dams by overtopping;Laboratory measurements and
numerical simulations of overtopping nappe impingement jets;
Characterization of the dynamic actions and scour estimation downstream of
a dam; Highly-converging chutes as an overtopping protection for concrete
dams: physical and numerical modelling; Miscellaneous:Probabilistic methods
for hydrologic dam safety analysis; Two-dimensional direct rainfall
hydraulic models applied to direct calculationof hydrologic events in dams
to prevent overtopping CFD analysis of flow pattern in labyrinth weirs;
Analysis of the design of energy-dissipating structure in spillways