All over the world, dam managers are constantly confronted with siltation of reservoirs. This natural phenomenon represents a menace to safety dam; because sediments deposited amplifies load applied and shut off dam’s bottom outlet. It also reduces usable capacity reservoir degrades quality water stored (pollution, eutrophication, turbidity, etc.). In arid semi-arid countries like Morocco, de-s...

Hydro-induction sediment discharge technique (HSDT) aims to prevent reservoir sedimentation by withdrawing the discharge water from the reservoir bottom to suck up and discharge sediments, and by inducing vertical vortexes and undercurrents in the reservoir bay to keep sediments agitated and moving. The technique is facilitated with an innovative discharge conduit system having bottom intakes t...

In the present article, effect of non-uniform excitation of reservoir bottom on nonlinear response of concrete gravity dams is considered. Anisotropic damage mechanics approach is used to model nonlinear behavior of mass concrete in 2D space. The tallest monolith of Pine Flat dam is selected as a case study. The horizontal and vertical components of 1967 Koyna earthquake is used to excite the s...

Hydro-induction sediment discharge technique (HSDT) aims to prevent reservoir sedimentation by withdrawing the discharge water from the reservoir bottom to suck up and discharge sediments, and by inducing vertical vortexes and undercurrents in the reservoir bay to keep sediments agitated and moving. The technique is facilitated with an innovative discharge conduit system having bottom intakes t...

Operational policy for hydropower dams must balance energy generation goals with environmental impacts under federal regulation, such as the Endangered Species and the Clean Water Acts. Multiple impoundments, reservoirs, outlet structures, and stochastic weather patterns complicate decision making to minimize impacts on downstream ecosystems. Currently, hydropower management to meet water quali...

Four cyclone concentrators were designed and fabricated to compare their particle separation and concentration behavior, such as the major, minor, outlet, and wall deposition fractions. Two of the cyclone concentrators were the conventional type, with the minor flow tube connected to the particle outlet at the bottom of the cyclone. The others were modified cyclone concentrators with a gap betw...

The dam of the reservoir Cuibul Vulturilor, located on Tutova river is an inhomogeneous earth with a maximum height 15.0 m, clayey central core and lateral prisms made clayey-dusty sands. For tracking evolution body seepage, 12 piezometers drainage pipe discharge in downstream connection channel bottom outlet are used. paper presents characteristic elements theoretical infiltration curve It als...

Deposition of sediment inside the conduit structures reduces the flow cross section area and increases the flow roughness which causes reduction of flow discharge passing through the conduit. Among the methods which can prevent sediment deposition is non sedimentation condition in the structure, Since the critical section of the inverted siphon in sedimentation is the outlet. In the begining of...

Bendungan merupakan salah satu sarana multifungsi yang memiliki peranan penting bagi kehidupan manusia. Guna menjaga dan meningkatkan jaminan keamanan bendungan pengoperasiannya maka diperlukan pemeriksaan teliti (assesment) melalui penerapan metodologi test/pengujian memadai. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mengetahui tingkat pelapukan kekuatan struktur beton concrete face spillway sejak din...

The Miami Conservancy District built five flood control dams after the catastrophic flood of 1913 in Dayton, Ohio. Lockington Dam was one of these five hydraulic fill structures. The Ohio State Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) issued new regulations in 1981 requiring that design flood for class I dams be considered equal to the Probable Maximum Flood (PMF). Flood routing studies performed...