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- Title
- Safety of Existing Dams: Evaluation and Improvement.
- File
- PB84148600.pdf
- Source
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., cJanuary 1983, 408 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- ISBN-0-309-03387-X
- Abstract
- The goal of this report is the enhancement of dam safety. It was prepared by the Committee on the Safety of Existing Dams, NRC to present in a single volume all essential aspects of dam safety. A major objective of the report is to provide guidance for achieving improvements in the safety of existing dams within financial restraints. Many dam owners are faced with problems of such a nature and extent that they are unable to finance remedial measures. To these owners as well as to regulatory agencies and others concerned with the engineering and surveillance of dams, the committee presents its suggestions and guidance for assessing and improving dam safety.
- Keywords
- Evaluation; Risk assessment; Earthquake resistant structures; Failure; Structural design; Reservoirs; Safety; Soil properties; Foundations; Dams; Slope protection; Geological investigations