Moved, left no address: dam construction, displacement and issue salience

No Issue Left Behind

Modern software development tools such as issue trackers are often complex and multi-purpose tools that provide access to an immense amount of raw information. Unfortunately, developers sometimes feel frustrated when they cannot easily obtain the particular information they need for a given task; furthermore, the constant influx of new data — the vast majority of which is irrelevant to their ta...

Zolqarnein’s Dam Construction

The Holy Quran is God’s miracle and its scientific miracle aspects or wonders have been recognized by development of human scientific abilities. Stating the story of Zolqarnein and dam construction by him, verses 83 to 98 of Al-Kahf have pointed to some scientific points and facts regarding safety industry, impenetrability and consolidation of iron through putting a coating of copper on its sur...

Agenda Setting and Issue Salience Online

Dam Safety During Design, Construction and Operation

Introduction In the foreword to the Malaysian Guidelines for Operation, Maintenance and Surveillance of Dams (Malaysian Inter-Departmental Committee on Dam Safety 1989), it is stated “The expanding inventory of dams has brought into focus the subject of dam safety”. At the time of the guideline publication, there had been a considerable increase in the inventory of dams with those constructed d...

InSAR Observation and Numerical Modeling of the Earth-Dam Displacement of Shuibuya Dam (China)

How to accurately determine the mechanical parameters of rockfill is one of the key issues of concrete-face rockfill dams. Parameter back-analysis using internal or external monitoring data has been proven to be an efficient way to solve this problem. However, traditional internal or external monitoring methods have limitations in efficiency and long-term monitoring. In this paper, the displace...