Dams Structural Engineering Technology

Includes the history of the 1953 flooding in The Netherlands and series of dams created to prevent this from happening again.

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• The World Commission on Dams - Archive of the commission whose objectives were to technology undertake a structural engineering global review of the development effectiveness technology of large dams and structural engineering to develop internationally acceptable technology criteria and guidelines for future decision-making structural engineering on dams.
• About Dams - A range of topics from the International Rivers Networks including technology social, environmental and economic impacts, and dam performance and safety.
• Parker Dam and Powerplant - Comment and photographs from the Bureau of Reclamation.
• The Dam Site - A range of topics from Richard Woodward, including structural engineering how dams are built and work, geology, and structural engineering the environment.
• High Masonry Dams. - Full text of John McMaster's 1876 publication.
• Dams - Illustrated project by Diana Biggs, on the social structural engineering and environmental impacts of large dams. Includes case structural engineering studies.
• Climate Control Requires a Dam at the Strait of Gibraltar - Article discusses the climate benefits of building a dam across the straits of Gibraltar. By R. G. Johnson, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota.
• Building The Ultimate Dam - Donald Jackson of the History Department, Lafayette College, dams describes his dams book on John S. Eastwood and dams the control of water dams in the American West. dams Excerpts and illustrations.
• Holding Back the Waters — Dams as Water Resource Monuments - Article by Joe Gelt which details the range of dams dams and the regulations that control them.
• The Los Angeles Dam Story - Illustrated article on the progress in designing critical technology structures to technology avoid damage during large earthquakes.
• Tailings Dam Safety - Topics include current issues, safety, dam properties and structural engineering failures. From the WISE uranium project.
• Pensacola Dam - Provides a range of photographs and commentary on the history structural engineering and construction of this 1938 dam located on the Grand structural engineering river in Oklahoma.
• California Dam Safety - Reviews plans and specifications for the construction of new dams dams or for the enlargement, alteration, repair, or removal of existing dams dams. Includes technical references, statutes and regulations.
• Kalpasar Dam Development Feasibility Study - Gujarat State considers a proposed tidal power dam at the dams Gulf of Khambhat, India. Includes history, benefits and technical features.
• Elan Valley Dams - History of the dams, reservoirs, and 73 mile aqueduct of the Elan Valley waterworks in mid-Wales. From the Powys digital history project.
• Geoguide Dams - Basic animated guide to the before, during, and structural engineering after dams phases of dam construction.
• Deltaworks - Includes the history of the 1953 flooding in The Netherlands and series of dams created to prevent this from happening again.
• Dam Design - Features a range of information for undergraduate studies. dams Topics include loadings, geology, site investigations, and construction. dams Compiled by Andrew Graham at Durham University.
• German Dam Research and Technology: - Provides links to publications that show progress in technology German dam dams research and case histories where modern technology techniques had been used. dams Publications in pdf format.
• Parker Dam - Guide from Desert USA to the deepest dam in the technology world, built in the 1930s on the Colorado River. Includes technology history, photographs and visitor information.
• Introduction to Dams - Topics include the societal nature of dams and opposition to, technology examples of failures, and types.
• Karun III - Project history, news, technical data and photographs. Arch dams dam located on the Karun river in Iran.

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