Resource
Dam Failures - Statistical Analysis
Resource Type
Guidelines, Technical Manuals, Reference Books
Reference Title
Dam Failures - Statistical Analysis
Organization/Agency
International Commission on Large Dams
Publisher Name
International Commission on Large Dams
Year
1995
Document Number
ICOLD Bulletin 99
Abstract/Additional Information
Accidents in industry have always been a spur to human progress and, for many years, was even the main driving force. This is especially true in dam engineering and, for this reason, ICOLD has on three occasions instigated worldwide surveys, to collect the largest amount of information on dam accidents and/or incidents. The nineteen-seventies saw the appearance of Lessons from Dams Accidents, the eighties produced Deterioration of Dams and reservoirs, and now we have Statistical Analysis of Dam Failures.
This third effort strives to avoid duplications with earlier work, but to find responses to questions than have hitherto found no objective answer: are some dam types, or some dam heights, more prone to failure than others?
