Civil Engineering Experience and Innovation of Earth-Rock Dams

Author: Gu Ganchen
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This book is suitable for readers engaged in water conservancy and hydropower engineering design, testing, research, construction, and operation management, and can also serve as a textbook for postgraduate students in hydraulic engineering or as an elective course for undergraduate students. The book introduces the development process of earth-rock dams, summarizing lessons learned from several successful and failed dams. It describes the engineering properties and constitutive relationships of rockfill, and discusses new technologies such as overflow rockfill dams, in-situ dam construction, high-pressure jet grouting, slurry splitting grouting, the application of geosynthetics in earth-rock dams, safety monitoring, and system identification.