Seismic Rehabilitation of Earth Dams

Marcuson, William F.; Hadala, Paul F.; Ledbetter, Richard

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9410(1996)122:1(7)

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“…Because they typically densify the soil to distances on the order of a only few pile diameters, they must be placed close together to be effective. Improvements have been noted to depths of about 60 ft [Marcuson et al, 1991].…”

Section: Soil Remediation Techniques For Mitigation Of Seismic Hazardsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Geotechnical and Foundation Aspects

Brandes¹

2002

Earthquake Engineering Handbook

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Section: Soil Remediation Techniques For Mitigation Of Seismic Hazardsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Geotechnical and Foundation Aspects

Brandes¹

2002

Earthquake Engineering Handbook

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“…The past century has witnessed tremendous progress on dam safety against hazards of earthquakes [e.g., Marcuson et al , 1996], piping/seepage [e.g., Casagrande , 1961; Sherard , 1987], and structural instability [e.g., Terzaghi and LaCroix , 1964; Vick and Bromwell , 1989]. Similarly, much is now known about the management of postdam effects on aquatic ecology [e.g., Ligon et al , 1995; Richter et al , 2002], riparian vegetation [e.g., Merritt and Cooper , 2000], and geomorphology [e.g., Graf , 2006].…”

Section: Issues Of Dam Safety Against Human Alteration To Extreme Prementioning

confidence: 99%

Dam safety effects due to human alteration of extreme precipitation

Hossain

Jeyachandran

Pielke

2010

Water Resources Research

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[1] Very little is known about the vulnerability of dams and reservoirs to man-made alteration of extreme precipitation and floods as we step into the 21st century. This is because conventional dam and reservoir design over the last century has been "one-way" with no acknowledgment of the possible feedback mechanisms affecting the regional water cycle. Although the notion that an impoundment could be built to increase rainfall was suggested more than 60 years ago, dam design protocol in civil engineering continues to assume as "static" the statistical parameters of a low exceedance probability precipitation event during the lifespan of the dam. It is time for us to change our perceptions and embrace a hydrometeorological approach to dam design and operations.

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“…For example, the construction of the oldest dam in the Tennessee River Valley, called the Wilson Dam in Alabama, began in 1918 (Gebregiorgis and Hossain 2012). With a long heritage built on knowledge gained from previous failures and success stories, the civil engineering profession has made tremendous progress in dam safety against hazards of earthquakes (e.g., Marcuson et al 1996), piping/seepage (e.g., Casagrande 1961;Sherard 1987), structural instability (e.g., Terzaghi and LaCroix 1964;Vick and Bromwell 1989), and optimization of dam operations to serve multiple, but competing, applications (Dai and Labadie 2001;Datta and Burges 1984). Similarly, much is now known about the management of postdam effects on aquatic ecology (e.g., Ligon et al 1995;Richter et al 1996), riparian vegetation (e.g., Merritt and Cooper 2000), geomorphology (e.g., Graf 2006), and dam removal as a result of sedimentation (Morris and Fan 1998;Graf et al 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%