40 Terms
Contributors in Dam safety
Dam safety
rock reinforcement
Energy; Hydro dam
The placement of rock bolts, untensioned rock dowels, prestressed rock anchors, or wire tendons in a rock mass to reinforce and mobilize the rock's natural competency to support itself.
risk analysis
Energy; Hydro dam
A procedure to identify and quantify risks by establishing potential failure modes, providing numerical estimates of the likelihood of an event in a specified time period, and estimating the ...
bedrock motion parameters
Energy; Hydro dam
Numerical values representing vibratory ground motion, such as particle acceleration, velocity, and displacement, frequency content, predominant period, spectral intensity, and a duration that define ...
flood hydrograph
Energy; Hydro dam
A graph showing, for a given point on a stream, the discharge, height, or other characteristic of a flood with respect to time.
active fault
Energy; Hydro dam
A fault which, because of its present tectonic setting, can undergo movement from time to time in the immediate geologic future.
