Embankment dam breach analysis encompasses the investigation and modelling of failure mechanisms in earthen structures that retain water. Research in this field addresses both the physical and ...

A new study reveals that the devastating 2023 flood in Derna, Libya, was not merely the result of extreme rainfall but was drastically intensified by a major design shortcoming and its resulting ...

Originally built in 1958, the Priest Rapids Dam is a composite structure with a center-channel spillway and powerhouse and a left and right embankment. Through proactive hazard identification modeling ...

Below the massive embankment of the North Fork Dam, activity of earthmoving equipment signals that work has begun on a $23 ...

Thalle Construction Co. Inc., Hillsborough, North Carolina, was awarded a $2,872,795,350 firm-fixed-price contract for the construction of a 17.75-mile-long embankment dam. Bids were solicited via the ...

For our nations’ first engineering force, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, dams and the massive reservoirs of fresh water they preserve, have become an essential element of its overall mission. Allen ...