Roller-compacted concrete dams have steadily taken their place in the menu of possible dam types over the past four decades, with over 650 of them completed or under construction, according to ...

Until March 11, 2011 no people died from the failure or damage of a large water storage dam due to an earthquake. However, during the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011, an ...

A dam’s design can affect its ability to withstand overtopping and resist failure. This event comes a year after flooding in Vermont collapsed at least one dam and threatened others. Hiba Baroud, ...

The Polavaram Dam Design Review Panel (DDRP) has rejected the proposal to build the main dam across the Godavari without a cofferdam. It took this decision after a meeting with Andhra Pradesh Water ...