Dam Safety Evaluation

Topics covered include: importance of dam safety; data review, investigation and analysis; hydrologic safety, flood estimation and automation of flood warning system; instrumentation, monitoring systems in new as well as existing dams; seismic aspects; design and construction innovation; numerical analysis; risk analysis, dam-break studies; emergency action plan; lessons from incidents and failures; rehabilitation and upgrading of existing dams - use of RCC; foundations - problems and solutions; control structures - gates etc; and isotope techniques in seepage evaluation.