On-Demand Webinar: Stability Evaluations of Concrete Dams

Historically, concrete dam analysis focused much of the attention on material property assumptions, which has been and continues to be important. But more recently, the focus is primarily on the modes of failure experienced by these types of dams. This webinar will present a more in-depth review of stability evaluation methods for concrete dams; the basics of which was first presented in the previous webinar entitled, “Introduction to Concrete Gravity Dams.”

This webinar will begin with a brief overview of the origins of rational design methods previously presented in “Introduction to Concrete Gravity Dams.” Other topics consist of: concrete dam construction and potential failure modes, material properties, loading cases, current federal agency criteria, stability analysis methods, simple gravity method, and finite element methods. The purpose of this webinar is to familiarize practitioners with the current state-of-the-practice in evaluating the stability of concrete dams.

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