Please note - Concrete Dams Design and Analysis will be held in West Windsor, NJ. All times listed are Eastern Time.
August 9, 2022
- 8:00 AM - Introductions
- 8:30 AM - Historical Perspective
- 8:30 AM - Gravity Dams
- From Masonry to Concrete
- Material Evolution
- 9:45 AM - Break
- 10:00 AM - Load, Load Combinations, and Criteria
- 12:00 PM - Lunch
- 1:00 PM - Methods of Analysis
- Simplified to Complex
- Simplified Analysis
- 1:30 PM - Comparison between Simplified and Advanced Studies
- 2:45 PM - Break
- 3:00 PM - Example Problem
- Gravity Method
- Cracked Base Analysis
- 5:00 PM - Adjourn
August 10, 2022
- 8:00 AM - Stability Criteria
- 8:45 AM - Potential Failure Modes
- Historical Examples
- Identifying and Developing
- 9:45 AM - Break
- 10:00 AM - Session Example – PFM Workshop
- PFM Brainstorming
- PFM Development
- Initiation
- Progression
- Intervention
- Failure
- Evaluation and Screening
- Risk Reduction
- Surveillance and Monitoring Plan
- Other Safety Measures
- 12:00 PM - Lunch
- 1:00 PM - Introduction into Dynamics
- Ground Motions
- Structural Characteristics
- Structural Response
- Seismic Damage Assessment
- Post-Earthquake
- 2:45 PM - Break
- 3:00 PM - Session Example
- 5:00 PM - Adjourn
August 11, 2022
- 8:00 AM - Introduction to Risk Analysis
- Failure Likelihood
- Consequences
- Confidence
- 9:45 AM - Break
- 10:00 AM - Surveillance and Monitoring
- Performance-based systems
- Load based systems
- 11:30 AM - Major Findings and Understandings
- 12:30 PM - Adjourn
