In this paper, the authors give a brief introduction to the earthquake monitoring system newly developed for two dams of a reservoir in North China. The two embankment dams are 66, 56 meters high and 960, 1008 meters long respectively. One of the dams suffered from severe landslide because of the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake, the design PGA of this site is set to 0.25g. Because of the complexity, i...

Tailings dams, due to methods and materials used in their construction are vulnerable structures to earthquake. In many cases storage of water over tailings is required to prevent aerial pollution or reduction in water consumption by the means of a recycling system, therefore failure of these kinds of dams not only induce affects similar to conventional water dams, but also may lead to irrevers...

A particular river-whiting phenomenon occurred in the early 2000s in the Xiaoche River and since then it has been reoccurring from June to November each year. Residents were surprised by this phenomenon and worried about it. This study was designed to reveal the forming mechanism of the river-whiting phenomenon. A comparison of T, EC, ORP, DO, TDS and δ34S in the culvert water and discharge pip...

In light of the pressing need for development of parameterizations of gravity current entrainment in ocean general circulation models, the behavior of turbulent gravity currents in the presence of ambient stratification is studied via numerical simulation, for cases in which equilibrated product water masses are formed. The main objective is to explore how the ambient stratification impacts ent...

The Aras reservoir, located in the north-west of Iran, plays an important role in fisheries, drinking and agricultural water supplies and recreational activities in the region. This study was performed to characterize the seasonal fluctuations of phytoplankton communities and their relationship with environmental factors in the Aras reservoir from August 2013 to May 2014. Sampling was carried o...

Dams are one of the most important water structures built to meet vital needs people such as irrigation and energy. It is great importance examine seismic safety dams. In addition, it investigate interaction behavior dams due bodies dams, reservoir water, foundation being in constant interaction. Therefore, this study, clay core rockfill (CCR) investigated by considering dam-foundation-reservoi...