Design standards No. 13 : Embankment Dams. Chapter 11 - Instrumentation and Monitoring

This design standard provides a general overview of a number of instrumentation-related topics, and includes some guidance concerning appropriate instrumentation types to be considered in various monitoring situations. The usual factors or quantities which need to be monitored in embankment dams are structural displacements, deformations, settlement, seepage, piezometric levels, and interstitial (pore) pressures within the structure and its foundation. The reasons for using instrumentation can be grouped into four general categories: analytical, predictive, legal, and research.