Operational Safety of Dams and Reservoirs : Understanding the Reliability of Flow-Control Systems

Title: Operational Safety of Dams and Reservoirs : Understanding the Reliability of Flow-Control Systems
Author: Desmond ND Hartford, Gregory B Baecher, Karl Rytters, P Andy Zielinski, Robert C Patev, Romanas Ascila
ISBN: 0727761218 / 9780727761217
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 400
Publisher: ICE Publishing
Year: 2016
Availability: Out of Stock

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Operational Safety of Dams and Reservoirs brings together a broad range of knowledge from key areas in dam and reservoir safety, spillways and flow-control to provide new analytical tools to better understand operating risk in hydropower and dam safety. This book is an essential reference for all professionals and practitioners who specialise in dams, major reservoir owners, inspecting and supervising engineers, and suppliers of plant and equipment.

With contributions from across the industry and a wide range of case studies, Operational Safety of Dams and Reservoirs outlines a solution for next-generation risk analysis, addresses the inputs and constraints to reservoir operations, as well as considering hydrologic inflows, downstream outflow requirements and external disturbances that may affect operations. Coupled with providing up-to-date information in managing the safe discharge of inflows and the control of water retention for productive uses, this book establishes a new approach for analysing and assessing the properties of dam systems in a more holistic way.

Operational Safety of Dams and Reservoirs:

  • includes international real-life case studies such as the Elko Dam incident, Canada, Taum Sauk Dam failure, USA, Tous Dam failure, Spain, and the impact of the Three Gorges Dam, China
  • outlines a new approach to assessing spillway systems reliability based on stochastic simulation of operations
  • examines spillways, SCADA and control, outflow conveyance and energy dissipation
  • establishes a new approach for analysing and assessing the properties of dam systems in a more holistic way based on understanding of operational factors.

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Preface

Part I : Dam Systems and Modelling
Chapter 1 :
Flow Control Failures in Dam Safety
Chapter 2 : Operational Context for Dams
Chapter 3 : Systems and Systems Engineering
Chapter 4 : Modelling Dam and Reservoir Systems

Part II : Inputs and Constraints
Chapter 5 :
Hydrologic Modelling and River Flow Routing
Chapter 6 : Outflow Requirements
Chapter 7 : Disturbances

Part III : Engineered Systems of Flow Control
Chapter 8 :
Release Function and Human Factors
Chapter 9 : Discharge Conveyance Function

Part IV : Modelling Dam and Reservoir Systems
Chapter 10 :
Simulating Flow Control Operations
Chapter 11 : Postscript

Index