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Dam Surveillance - Lessons Learnt From Case Histories / Surveillance des Barrages - Lecons Tirees d'Etudes de cas - Bulletin 180 (Paperback)
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Dam Surveillance - Lessons Learnt From Case Histories / Surveillance des Barrages - Lecons Tirees d'Etudes de cas - Bulletin 180 (Paperback)
Series: ICOLD Bulletins Series
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ICOLD Bulletin 180 presents the vast experience gained over the
past 6 decades by the dam engineering community in the field of dam
surveillance by means of 80 case histories. The documented case
histories endeavour to cover the practical experiences related with
one or several of the following points: a) Methods for the
improvement of the quality and reliability of information. b) Data
processing and representation techniques. c) Effective Diagnostic
analyses to determine behaviour patterns. d) Dedicated surveillance
systems for the optimization of maintenance, rehabilitation, and
other life cycle costs. e) Impact of surveillance on preventing dam
incidents and dam failure. f) Overview of dam surveillance
management systems. The case histories cover a wide variety of
technical aspects and deal with success stories but also incidents,
some of them with catastrophic consequences. The time framework
spans over 70 years: from the times of the Second World War up to
the present. The purpose is to learn from these practical
experiences, not to criticize the involved individuals, who had to
work with the techniques and rules of practice available at the
time. This bulletin wants to contribute to keep learning from the
experience of the dam engineering community, specifically in the
field of dam surveillance. Some of the case histories are widely
known and have been described and analysed in numerous
publications. Most of them are related to famous dam failure
incidents and were compiled as international "benchmark case
histories" for this bulletin to focus on the specific lessons
learnt related with dam surveillance. Le Bulletin de la CIGB 180
presente la vaste experience acquise au cours des 6 dernieres
decennies par la communaute des ingenieurs de barrages dans le
domaine de la surveillance des barrages au moyen de 80 histoires de
cas. Les histoires de cas documentees s'efforcent de couvrir les
experiences pratiques liees a un ou plusieurs des points suivants :
a) Methodes d'amelioration de la qualite et de la fiabilite de
l'information. b) Techniques de traitement et de representation des
donnees. c) Analyses diagnostiques efficaces pour determiner les
modeles de comportement. d) Systemes de surveillance dedies pour
l'optimisation de la maintenance, de la rehabilitation et des
autres couts du cycle de vie. e) Impact de la surveillance sur la
prevention des incidents et des ruptures de barrage. f) Apercu des
systemes de gestion de la surveillance des barrages. Les histoires
de cas couvrent une grande variete d'aspects techniques et traitent
de reussites mais aussi d'incidents, dont certains avec des
consequences catastrophiques. Le cadre temporel s'etend sur 70 ans
: de l'epoque de la Seconde Guerre mondiale a nos jours. Le but est
d'apprendre de ces experiences pratiques, pas de critiquer les
individus impliques, qui ont du travailler avec les techniques et
les regles de pratique disponibles a l'epoque. Ce bulletin veut
contribuer a continuer d'apprendre de l'experience de la communaute
de l'ingenierie des barrages, en particulier dans le domaine de la
surveillance des barrages. Certaines des histoires de cas sont
largement connues et ont ete decrites et analysees dans de
nombreuses publications. La plupart d'entre eux sont lies a des
incidents de rupture de barrages celebres et ont ete compiles en
tant qu'" histoires de cas de reference " internationales pour ce
bulletin afin de se concentrer sur les lecons specifiques apprises
liees a la surveillance des barrages.
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