Dam engineering
CIVIL-411
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Welcome to the course on "Dam Engineering".
Your lecturers: Dr Pedro Manso & Mr. Laurent Mouvet
- News forum (Forum)
- Course schedule 2024-2025 (File)
- Course structure and assessment 2024 (File)
- Channel CIVIL 411 (2020) sur SwitchTUBE (URL)
- Chaine SwitchTUBE 2021 (some additions and updates) (URL)
- TGC17, édition 2020 - Corrigendum (File)
- 2024 Questions DamEngineering Civil-411 (File)
Week #01 (10.09) - Dam types and selection criteria. Introd. to gravity dams
Please find below the updated presentations for Civil 411.
Week #02 (17.09) - Gravity dams: foundation, stability, stresses
Week #03 (24.09) - Gravity Dams. Seismic behaviour.
Week #04 (01.10) - Hollow gravity and Buttress dams
Week #05 (08.10) - Arch dams: foundation requirements and geometry definition
Week #06 (15.10) - Technical site visit to Rossens dam and Schiffennen dam
Week #07 (29.10) - Arch dams: preliminary design
- 2024 #7A Arch Dams PM2 (File)
- 2024 #7B Arch Dams PM3 (File)
- COMPLEMENTARY_2022-06-01 Malpasset BGoguel Ilustrations (File)
Week #08 (05.11) - Dam surveillance (1/2)
Week #09 (12.11) - Dam surveillance (2/2) and Emergency preparedness
Week #10 (19.11) - Arch dams: stress distribution, geometry features, excavation, foundation treatment, concrete technology
Week #11 (26.11) - Embankment dams: foundation and material criteria. Dam types
Week #12 (03.12) - Embankments dams: seismic behaviour
W#13 (10.12) - Embankment dams
W#14 (17.12) - Particular features of Embankment Dams + Heightening of dams and reservoirs
- 2024 #14 Embankment Dams 1 Material Qualification (File)
- 2024 #14 Embankment Dams 2 Behaviour After Filling (File)
- 2024 #14 Embankment Dams 3 Freeboard (File)
- 2024 #14 Heightening of dams and reservoirs (File)
Exercices Civil-411
- Exercice 1 - Gravity dam (Text and media area)
- Exercise 1: script 2024 (File)
- Exercise 1: in-class presentation 2024 (File)
- Directives - Exemples d'application aux ouvrages de petite hauteur (File)
- Directive OFEN C3 - Sécurité aux Séismes (v2021) (File)
- Exercise1 - Grading example (File)
- Exercice 2 - Innovation (Text and media area)
- Exercice 2 - Innovation topics (Folder)
- Advances in Dam Engineering (2024 Edition) (File)
- Exercice 3 - Arch dam (Text and media area)
- Exercise 3 - Arch dam: script (File)
- Exercice 3 - Explanations (File)
- Exercice 3 - Drawings (File)
- Trial load method - Base (File)
- Erratum TGC17 ch. 15.4.3 (File)
- Trift DWG Cross section (File)
- Trift DWG Plan view (File)
- US Bureau of Reclamation - 1977 - Design of Arch Dams (URL)
- Exercice 4 - Embankment dam (Text and media area)
- 2024 CIVIL-411 Ex4 Assignment (File)
- 2024 CIVIL-411 Ex4 Presentation (File)
- 2024 CIVIL-411 Ex4 Help for Slide 2D (File)
- Accelerogram (File)
- 2024 Civil-411 Makdisi Seed (File)
- 2024 CIVIL-411 Ex4 Help for Makdisi Seed (File)
- C3 Safety against earthquakes_FR (2021) (File)
- C1 Dimensionnement et construction v2.1 (File)
- 1978 Makdisi Seed (File)
- Exemple_Verification_Seismes_RemblaisNoyau (File)
References
- 2020_World Bank - Dam Safety framework (Laying the foundations) (File)
- 2019_ICOLD_Benchmark_EPFL_Contribution (File)
- 196x_BTSR_Moiry_Tourtemagne (File)
- 1983_Hoek_Strength_of_jointed_rock_masses (File)
- 2012_Duffaut (reference paper on Malpasset dam failure) (File)
- Laying the Foundations: A Global Analysis of Regulatory Frameworks for the Safety of Dams and Downstream Communities (worldbank.org), (URL)
- Moglice Dam fast timeline (URL)