Ljiljana Spasic-Gril

Dams Safety and Society (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book aims to help clients, consultants and funding agencies which are engaged in dam safety assessment projects in developing countries to focus on issues that are based on the past lessons learnt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000646412
• Artikelnr.: 64383971

Autorenporträt

Ljiljana Spasic-Gril has 40 years experience in the feasibility, design, dam safety assessment, construction and commissioning of dams and reservoirs in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central, South and East Asia, Australasia, North and South America. She has worked on around 400 dam projects in over 56 countries. Ljiljana has extensive experience on dam safety projects worldwide and has been involved in dam safety projects in the UK (8 dams), Sri Lanka (30 dams), Russia (one dam), Armenia (65 dams), Georgia (6 dams), Ethiopia, Vietnam (450 dams) and Central Asia (over 30 dams). The dam safety project in Central Asia included safety assessment of the Nurek dam, a 300 m high embankment dam, currently the second tallest dam in the world, and the Rogun Dam in Tajikistan when constructed to be the world's tallest dam (335 m tall). Ljiljana has wide experience in managing the activities of multi-disciplinary teams comprising expats and local engineers; she has been involved in developing major schemes from inception through to implementation funded by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank, African Development Bank, EBRD, EIB, KfW, DfID and other international and UK funding agencies. Ljiljana has also been appointed as a Dam Expert to UNESCO World Heritage. She is author of 18 papers (6 presented at ICOLD conferences), a Chapter on Dams in the book "Engineering Geology and Geomorphology of Glaciated and Periglaciated Terrains" published by the Geological Society, Engineering Geology Special Publication 28. She is the UK representative to the Seismic Technical Committee of International Committee for Large Dams (ICOLD) and Permanent Visiting Professor at South Bank University, London (Dam Engineering).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Main aspects in Dam Safety Assessment and Principles and Concepts Applied 3. Case Studies: Eurasia/Western Asia
Armenia 4. Case Studies: Eurasia/Western Asia
Georgia 5. Case Study: Central Asia
Tajikistan 6. Case Study: South Asia
Sri Lanka 7. Case Studies: South East Asia
Myanmar 8. Case Studies: SouthEast Asia
Vietnam 9. Case Studies: East Africa
Mauritius 10. Case Studies: East Africa
Madagascar 11. Lessons Learnt And Recommendations 12. References