Dam engineering
CIVIL-411
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Welcome to the course on "Dam Engineering".
Your lecturers: Dr Pedro Manso & Dr. Giovanni De Cesare
- News forum (Forum)
- Course schedule 2025-2026 (File)
- Course structure and assessment 2025 (File)
- Channel CIVIL 411 (2020) sur SwitchTUBE (URL)
- Chaine SwitchTUBE 2021 (some additions and updates) (URL)
- TGC17, édition 2020 - Corrigendum (File)
- 2025 Exam Questions Dam Engineering Civil-411 (File)
Week #01 (09.09.2025) - Dam types and selection criteria. Introd. to gravity dams
Please find below the updated presentations for Civil 411.
Week #02 (16.09) - Gravity dams: foundation, stability, stresses
Week #03 (23.09) - Gravity Dams. Seismic behaviour.
Week #04 (30.09) - Hollow gravity and Buttress dams
Week #05 (07.10) - Arch dams: foundation requirements and geometry definition
Week #06 (14.10) - Technical site visit to Rossens dam and Schiffenen dam
- 2025 10 14 Dam site visit Civil 411 Dam Engineering (File)
- Registration / Merci de bien vouloir vous inscrire pour l'excursion avant le 3 octobre 2025 sur le lien suivant, merci (URL)
Week #07 (29.10) - Arch dams: preliminary design
Week #08 (04.11) - Dam surveillance and Emergency Preparedness planning
Week #09 (11.11) - Arch Dams - design methods
Week #10 (18.11) - Foundation treatment, concrete technology + Introduction to Embankment dams
- 2025 #10 Mass concrete production technology PM (File)
- 2025 #10 Embankment Dams 1 Introduction (File)
W#11 (25.11) - Embankment dams: foundation and material criteria. Dam types
Week #12 (02.12) - Embankments dams
- 2025 #12A Embankment Dams 3 Profiles (File)
- 2025 #12B Embankment Dams Stability against Earthquakes (File)
- 2018 Chap6 Verification Sismique DigueNoyau Haraz PDM2015 (File)
W#13 (09.12) - Embankment dams: qualification of materials & safety against earthquakes
- 2025 #12B Embankment Dams Stability against Earthquakes (File)
- 2025 #13 Embankment Dams 1 Material Qualification (File)
- 2025 #13 Embankment Dams 2 Behaviour after 1st filling (File)
W#14 (16.12) - Bottom outlets ¦ Heightening of dams and reservoirs
- 2025 #14 Freeboard (File)
- 2025 #14 Heightening of dams and reservoirs (File)
- 2025 #14 Bottom outlets (File)
Exercices Civil-411
- Exercice 1 - Gravity dam (Text and media area)
- Exercise 1: script 2025 (File)
- Exercise 1: in-class presentation 2025 (File)
- Directive OFEN C3 - Earthquake verification (v2025 NEW) (File)
- Directive C3 - tool C3-HDT-EN (File)
- Exercise1 - Grading example (File)
- 1983_Hoek_Strength_of_jointed_rock_masses (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)
- Trial load method - Base (File)
- Erratum TGC17 ch. 15.4.3 (File)
- Exercise 3 - Cantilever eccentricity (File)
- Exercice 3 - Drawings (File)
- Trift DWG Cross section (File)
- Trift DWG Plan view (File)
- ADSAS archive (File)
- ADSAS geometry file (File)
- Exercice 4 - Embankment dam (Text and media area)
- 2025 Civil-411 Exercise 4 Embankment Dam (File)
- 2025 CIVIL-411 Exercise 4 Presentation (File)
- 2025 Civil-411 Exercise 4 Help for Slide 2D (File)
- Accelerogram (File)
- 2025 Civil-411 Exercise 4 Help for Makdisi Seed (File)
- 2025 Civil-411 Makdisi Seed (File)
- C1 Dimensionnement et construction v2.1 (File)
- C3 Erdbebensicherheit 2025 F (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)
- 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)