Sunwater: The lift joints have been identified as a point of weakness, so testing was undertaken to gain additional data to inform suitable remediation measures. A Sunwater spokesperson said a range ...

The inquiry is set to examine the root cause of structural and stability issues identified with the dam, which the Queensland Government intends to lower by five metres for safety. The first hearing ...

The advent of roller-compacted concrete (RCC) in the construction of gravity dams has made them more time and cost-effective and a viable alternative to arch dams, and therefore the arch dam market ...

...leveled for laydown and to fit offices, warehouses, mechanic shops, general storage, two RCC plants, a conventional concrete batch plant, parking for 600 cars and a 750,000-gallon reservoir for ...

In the early hours of December 14, 2005, high atop Proffit Mountain in the Missouri Ozarks, a triangular section on the northwest side of the Taum Sauk Dam Upper Reservoir failed, discharging 1 ...

The first day of inquiry hearings into major structural problems the dam – deemed last year as unsafe – was told that it could have collapsed during the 2013 flood if the deluge had continued any ...

The offset shear strength is the shear stress endured by a material at the intersection of the shear stress versus the engineering shear strain curve, with a line parallel to a defined modulus and ...