Abstract:The basic element in any structure or infrastructure project is safety. Therefore for sustainable storage dams the emphasis must be on the long-term safety of the dam. Today, dam safety requires an integral concept, which includes (i) structural safety, (ii) dam safety monitoring, (iii) operational safety and maintenance, and (iv) emergency planning. The importance of these four safety elements is discussed. The long-term safety includes, first, the analysis of all hazards affecting the project, i.e. hazards from the natural environment, hazards from the man-made environment and project-specific and site-specific hazards. The special features of the seismic safety of dams are discussed, as today the structural safety of large storage dams is often governed by the earthquake load case. Although large dams belong to the first structures, which have been designed systematically against earthquakes since the 1930s, the seismic safety of these dams is unknown, as most of them have been designed using seismic design criteria and methods of analysis that are considered obsolete today. Therefore, we need to re-evaluate the seismic safety of existing dams based on current state-of-the-art practice and rehabilitate existing dams if necessary.
About Dr. Martin Wieland:
Dr. Martin Wieland has been the Chairman of the Committee on Seismic Aspects of Dam Design of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) since1999. Until this year he was also the Chairman of the Earthquake Committee of the Swiss Dam Society. He is a senior dam and earthquake expert at Poyry Switzerland Ltd. in Zurich, Switzerland, where he has been involved in the seismic safety evaluation of some of the world’s largest dams and other major infrastructure projects. From 1980 To 1990, he was a faculty member in the Division of Structural Engineering and Construction at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok, Thailand where he offered courses on earthquake engineering and structural dynamics and other subjects.
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Date and Time: 6 November 2015 (13:00 - 15:00 hrs.)
Venue: B108, AIT Conference Center
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