An Introduction to Small Dams

An Introduction to Small Dams
Author: J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A.
Publisher: Guyer Partners
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and other professional engineers and construction managers interested in design and construction of small dams. Here is what is discussed: 1. SMALL DAM TYPES 2. SMALL CONCRETE GRAVITY DAMS 3. EARTHFILL EMBANKMENT DAMS 4. EMBANKMENT DESIGN 5. CONCRETE CONDUITS 6. OUTLET WORKS 7. SOIL EXPLORATION.

An Introduction to Small Dam Outlet Works

An Introduction to Small Dam Outlet Works
Author: J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A.
Publisher: Guyer Partners
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2018-10-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers interested in outlet works for small dams. Here is what is discussed: 1. GENERAL 2. OUTLET WORKS COMPONENTS.

An Introduction to Safety of Small Dams for Professional Engineers

An Introduction to Safety of Small Dams for Professional Engineers
Author:
Publisher: Guyer Partners
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2023-02-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and other professional engineers and construction managers interested in safety of small dams. Here is what is discussed: 1. INTRODUCTION, 2. PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS, 3. PERIODIC DAM SAFETY EVALUATIONS, 4. TECHNICAL ANALYSES.

Manual on Small Earth Dams

Manual on Small Earth Dams
Author: Tim Stephens
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2010
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9789251065471

This publication fills a void of practical guidelines for the construction of small earth dams. It presents readers with sound, reliable and practical source material to improve dam siting and design capacity in rural areas, to introduce a beneficiary and gender sensitive approach and to enhance safety and competence in construction. A section also provides convenient guidance on costing, drafting tenders and awarding contracts. The manual is primarily aimed at technicians and others with knowledge of engineering and basic irrigation systems and processes to apply the concepts, techniques and methods proposed, using simple and straightforward design and construction procedures.

An Introduction to Soil Exploration for Small Dams

An Introduction to Soil Exploration for Small Dams
Author: J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A.
Publisher: Guyer Partners
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2018-10-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Introductory technical guidance for civil and geotechnical engineers interested in geotechnical explorations for small dams and similar structures. Here is what is discussed: 1. SURFACE EXPLORATIONS 2. GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION METHODS 3. SUBSURFACE EXPLORATORY METHODS.

Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams

Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 1991-02-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309043360

The hazard posed by large dams has long been known. Although no concrete dam has failed as a result of earthquake activity, there have been instances of significant damage. Concerns about the seismic safety of concrete dams have been growing recently because the population at risk in locations downstream of major dams continues to expand and because the seismic design concepts in use at the time most existing dams were built were inadequate. In this book, the committee evaluates current knowledge about the earthquake performance of concrete dams, including procedures for investigating the seismic safety of such structures. Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams specifically informs researchers about state-of-the-art earthquake analysis of concrete dams and identifies subject areas where additional knowledge is needed.

Dams and Development

Dams and Development
Author: Sanjeev Khagram
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018-08-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501727397

Big dams built for irrigation, power, water supply, and other purposes were among the most potent symbols of economic development for much of the twentieth century. Of late they have become a lightning rod for challenges to this vision of development as something planned by elites with scant regard for environmental and social consequences—especially for the populations that are displaced as their homelands are flooded. In this book, Sanjeev Khagram traces changes in our ideas of what constitutes appropriate development through the shifting transnational dynamics of big dam construction. Khagram tells the story of a growing, but contentious, world society that features novel and increasingly efficacious norms of appropriate behavior in such areas as human rights and environmental protection. The transnational coalitions and networks led by nongovernmental groups that espouse such norms may seem weak in comparison with states, corporations, and such international agencies as the World Bank. Yet they became progressively more effective at altering the policies and practices of these historically more powerful actors and organizations from the 1970s on. Khagram develops these claims in a detailed ethnographic account of the transnational struggles around the Narmada River Valley Dam Projects in central India, a huge complex of thirty large and more than three thousand small dams. He offers further substantiation through a comparative historical analysis of the political economy of big dam projects in India, Brazil, South Africa, and China as well as by examining the changing behavior of international agencies and global companies. The author concludes with a discussion of the World Commission on Dams, an innovative attempt in the late 1990s to generate new norms among conflicting stakeholders.

Groundwater Dams for Small-scale Water Supply

Groundwater Dams for Small-scale Water Supply
Author: Ă…ke Nilsson
Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1988
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Looking at inexpensive methods for water supply schemes in rural areas of developing countries, this book examines the suitable conditions and economic factors for different types of groundwater dam and describes planning and investigation methods.

Geotechnical Engineering of Dams

Geotechnical Engineering of Dams
Author: Robin Fell
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1374
Release: 2014-11-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0203387317

This book provides a comprehensive text on the geotechnical and geological aspects of the investigations for and the design and construction of new dams and the review and assessment of existing dams. The book provides dam engineers and geologists with a practical approach, and gives university students an insight into the subject of dam engineering. All phases of investigation, design and construction are covered, through to the preliminary and detailed design phases and ultimately the construction phase. This revised and expanded 2nd edition includes a lengthy new chapter on the assessment of the likelihood of failure of dams by internal erosion and piping.