This document discusses dam safety and earthquakes. It notes that dam failures have increased due to aging infrastructure, earthquakes, and unusual weather. Dams can fail for reasons such as earthquakes, poor maintenance, design errors, internal erosion, or geological instability. To ensure safety, modern dam design incorporates structural monitoring, operational safety practices, maintenance, and emergency planning. Proper maintenance and safety assessments over the dam's lifespan are needed to account for changing seismic risks.
This document discusses dam safety and earthquakes. It notes that dam failures have increased due to aging infrastructure, earthquakes, and unusual weather. Dams can fail for reasons such as earthquakes, poor maintenance, design errors, internal erosion, or geological instability. To ensure safety, modern dam design incorporates structural monitoring, operational safety practices, maintenance, and emergency planning. Proper maintenance and safety assessments over the dam's lifespan are needed to account for changing seismic risks.
This document discusses dam safety and earthquakes. It notes that dam failures have increased due to aging infrastructure, earthquakes, and unusual weather. Dams can fail for reasons such as earthquakes, poor maintenance, design errors, internal erosion, or geological instability. To ensure safety, modern dam design incorporates structural monitoring, operational safety practices, maintenance, and emergency planning. Proper maintenance and safety assessments over the dam's lifespan are needed to account for changing seismic risks.
This document discusses dam safety and earthquakes. It notes that dam failures have increased due to aging infrastructure, earthquakes, and unusual weather. Dams can fail for reasons such as earthquakes, poor maintenance, design errors, internal erosion, or geological instability. To ensure safety, modern dam design incorporates structural monitoring, operational safety practices, maintenance, and emergency planning. Proper maintenance and safety assessments over the dam's lifespan are needed to account for changing seismic risks.
1,2,3, s of Civil Engineering, Daff odil Internati onal University *Team leader htt ps://bit.ly/32aklMN Abstract Accomplishment Nowadays, we can see an increasing ● Catchment hydrological monitoring system. amount of dam damage or failure ● Dam structure monitoring instrumentation. due to aging, earthquakes occurrence ● Emergency public warning, mass notification system. and unusual changes in weather. For ● Supervisory and data acquisition & analytic system. this reason, dam safety is gaining more importance than ever before in Fig-1: Primary stage to burst a dam. terms of disaster management at a national level. Introduction A dam is a structure built to store large volumes of water, control the flow of water, or divert water flowing Fig-3: Different types of causes to fail a dam. Fig-2: After blast, the speed of water flow. from upstream. Under International Conclusion Humanitarian Law, dams are Reason Technology is available for designing & building dams & classified as dangerous installations ● Earthquake’s and extreme inflow. structures that can safely resist the effects of strong due to their potential to cause ● Poor maintenance, especially of outlet pipes. ground shaking. The assumption appurtenant civil massive damage in the case of ● Spillway design error. structureToday, thatthe is seismic safe atsafety theoftime ofstorage a large construction remains dam includes the failure. Dam failures may lead to loss following safety elements: ● Human, computer or design error. safe during its whole service① lifestructural safety, ② During is not realistic. dam safety the of lives, economic losses, and monitoring, ③ operational safety and maintenance, and ④ ● Internal erosion or piping, especially in earthen dams. life span ofemergency a dam, several seismic safety assessments planning. All items are equally important. will destruction of the environment. ● Geological instability. be needed if new information on the seismic hazard Although dam failures are caused by ● Sub-standard construction materials/techniques. becomes available. Keeping a dam in a safe condition several factors, such as extreme requires proper maintenance of the equipment and inflow, use of sub-standard Reference installations as well as the civil structures. construction materials, poor Hinks, J. (2015). Dams and earthquakes. SECED 2015 maintenance, and design error, Conference: Earthquake Risk and Engineering towards Acknowledgement failures are relatively rare. a Resilient World 9-10 July 2015, Cambridge. Mr. Md. Mehedi Hassan Bhuiyan, Keywords Lecturer, Daffodil International University, Daffodil Smart City, Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka. Richter scale, seepage, boil, slump, cracking, protocol, flooding, infrastructural hazards. I Date:11-28-2022