The Three Gorges Dam was built on the Yangtze River and is known as the most powerful dam by hydroelectric capacity to date.

An interim report from the Association of State Dam Safety Officials reports that a clear factor in the failures of two dams built in the 1920s was static liquefaction (flow) instability of saturated, ...

Yida Zhang is deeply passionate about assessing the stability of dams, but his approach is unconventional. Rather than studying the large aging structures, his research zeroes in on the tiny sand ...

The arduous task of cleaning up from catastrophic flooding is underway across the Northeast after storms stretched the region’s flood control systems nearly to the breaking point. Managing these flood ...

Concrete dam engineering involves a multidisciplinary approach to ensure structural integrity, durability and safety. Recent advancements have focused on understanding the complex interplay between ...

Eliminating obsolete or unsafe dams could help bolster community safety amid climate-induced weather extremes, watershed experts are recommending. Storms and floods have intensified in both frequency ...

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The Salmon Creek Dam is receiving some much-deserved recognition as the first constant angle concrete arch dam in the country. It is now being dedicated as a National Historic Civil Engineering ...

The Upper Wawa Dam, operated by Manila Water subsidiary WawaJVCo, has once again proven its critical role in flood mitigation ...

Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams is written for graduate students, researcher and professor engineers, and offers a comprehensive and integrated view of current procedures and methods for the ...

Long before he became an associate professor of Civil Engineering and an expert on the effects of earthquakes on dams, Richard “Richie” Armstrong was a young man in Canada, dreaming about California.