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The causes of the Whaley Bridge dam failure
- Feb, 10, 2020
- Dam Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Back in August 2019, the Whaley bridge dam partially collapsed and officials evacuated a town in fear of a total failure. Now, the causes of the dam's failure have been revealed. The dam is establish...
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PLAXIS example: Westergaard's added mass for hydrodynamic pressures
- Mar, 11, 2020
- Dam Engineering News On Software Numerical & Constitutive Modeling Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
PLAXIS 2D/3D latest CONNECT Edition (V20 Update 1) introduced the newly implemented Westergaard's added-mass feature to deal with the hydrodynamic effects induced by the impounded water on the respo...
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Vol. 5, Issue 2 of the IJGCH has been released!
- Mar, 11, 2020
- Deep Foundations Dam Engineering Levees News On Publications
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
We are pleased to announce the Issue #2 of Volume #5 of the International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories, an official Journal of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnica...
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Study shows that hydropower dams reduce the temperature of rivers
A new study, published in the Environmental Research Letters journal, focuses on the impact of hydropower dams on the temperature of rivers in Asia's Mekong River basin. Scientists from the Universit...
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California reservoir needs to be drained due to risk of failure
- Mar, 04, 2020
- Dam Engineering News On Projects / Industry Earth / Rockfill Dams Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- United States, California , Morgan Hill
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
California officials decided to drain a reservoir as its dam could fail under a strong seismic event. The Anderson reservoir, an artificial lake in Californian Santa Clara County, was created in 1950...
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Submit your geotechnical project for the Year in Infrastructure (YII) 2020 Awards
- Feb, 25, 2020
- Dam Engineering Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Foundation Design / Construction Green Infrastructure Railway Geotechnics Pavement Offshore Geotechnics Ports Risk & Reliability Rock Engineering Soil Mechanics Tunneling Underground Structures News On Events News On Awards
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Year in Infrastructure 2020 Conference, to be held from October 12-15 in Vancouver Conversion Centre will conclude with the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards gala and ceremony, where the winners...
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Study suggests the construction of 2 vast dams in the North Sea to protect Europe from floods
- Feb, 20, 2020
- Dam Engineering Geoenvironmental Engineering News On Projects / Industry
- North Sea
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
According to scientists, as seawater level rises due to climate change, a plan to address flooding in northern Europe is to construct 2 vast dams in the North Sea. A new study, which will be publishe...
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Mississippi's Oktibbeha County Lake Dam found vulnerable to failure
- Jan, 14, 2020
- Dam Engineering Landslides News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- United States, Mississippi, Starkville
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Oktibbeha County Lake Dam located in eastern Mississippi is prone to collapse due to intense precipitation that struck the region. According to an official statement issued on January 14, 2020, t...
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Dam failure due to heavy rainfall in South Carolina
- Dec, 23, 2019
- Dam Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- United States, South Carolina
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A dam located in Aiken County, South Carolina, burst after a long period of rainfall struck the surrounding area. The incident occurred on Monday, December 23, 2019. According to Chris Rohrbach, a me...
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High water level blamed for Vale's dam collapse in Brazil
According to experts, the catastrophic failure of Vale's mining waste dam was caused by high water level. In January 2019, the 86-meter high dam located in the state of Minas Gerais, collapsed trigge...
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