SYNOPSIS. The leakage of water from a dam suggests a number of possible scenarios, and none of them are good. At best, the reservoir owner is losing the power-generating potential of the escaping water. At worst, the leakage may be the precursor of dam failure. Among the technological advances that will enhance the safety and efficiency of hydropower in the future, is a remarkable breakthrough ...

Construction of column-supported embankments (CSEs) with unreinforced high-modulus elements is now common practice to accelerate fill placement. These brittle columns are susceptible column fracturing and CSE designs often limit the degree lateral spreading such that tensile rupture will not occur, which stems from salient concerns may trigger uncontrolled and/or cessation intended vertical loa...

in this paper, we obtain a suitable mathematical model for the seismic response of dams. by using the shear beam model (sb model), we give a mathematical formulation that it is a partial differential equation and transform it to the sturm-liouville equation.