The present paper examines the use of optical fiber as a distributed temperature sensor to detect leaks in earth dams. This real-time data acquisition technique complements current auscultation systems and improves monitoring these critical infrastructures. aim this is provide practical illustration novel promising and, particularly, precautions consider correctly deploy elements. For last purp...

Field studies were carried out on the earthen dam of channel reservoir Tuyamuyun hydrosystem Amudarya River (Uzbekistan), which was put into operation in 1984 according to traditional method using control and measuring equipment embedded body dam. The water levels upper lower reaches, piezometers, drainage discharge measured. Maximal 130.00 head race observed middle October minimal 117.00 March...

considering the seepage and choosing an efficient sealing method is very important in dam projects. this issue has a close relationship with engineering geological properties of the dam site. chapar-abad dam is an inhomogeneous earth-fill dam of 44.5 meters height, crest length about 427 meters and a reservoir capacity of 127 million cubic meters. the dam project is under construction and is lo...

A dam under seismic excitation contains several multi-physics coupled systems that are of interest in computational modeling. The greatest heterogenous coupled systems are the fluid-structure interaction between the fluid and the dam as well as the fluid and the soil. In addition, there is a region near the dam that is subject to bulk cavitation, where the fluid pressure drops below the vaporiz...