Monitoring dam performance
Subtitle: instrumentation and measurements
By: prepared by the Task Committee to Revise Guidelines for Dam Instrumentation of the Committee on Water Power of the Energy Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; edited by Kim de Rubertis, P.E., D. GE
Contributors: De Rubertis, Kim, editor
Series: ASCE manuals and reports on engineering practice -- no. 135; ASCE manuals and reports on engineering practice -- no. 135.
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Reston, Virginia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781523120079; 9780784480984; 9780784414828
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Dams; Inspection; Dam safety; Dam failures; Prevention; Hydraulic measurements; Barrages; Sécurité; Mesures hydrodynamiques
Description: "MOP 135 provides practical information on the process of using instrumented monitoring to determine how well a dam is performing."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Introduction; title: Chapter 2. Performance Monitoring; title: Chapter 3. Failure Modes; title: Chapter 4. Planning and Implementing a Monitoring Program; title: Chapter 5. Instrumentation and Measurement Tools; title: Chapter 6. Geodetic Monitoring; title: Chapter 7. Data Acquisition; title: Chapter 8. Data Management and Presentation; title: Chapter 9. Evaluation, Decision, and Action; title: Chapter 10. Embankment Dams; title: Chapter 11. Concrete Dams; title: Chapter 12. Other Dams and Appurtenant Structures; title: Chapter 13. Sample Data Forms and Plots; title: Chapter 14. History of Instrumentation and Monitoring; title: Appendix A. References; title: Appendix B. Failure Mode Analyses; title: Appendix C. Range, Resolution, Accuracy, Precision, and Repeatability; title: Appendix D. Glossary of Terms.