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Taking care of Canada
09 November, 2005
The Canadian Dam Association’s Executive Director Barry Hurndall took some time out to talk to IWP&DC about the association’s activities and aims
Construction evolution
13 October, 2005
Bayardo Materon reviews the progress of construction methods and materials applied in some of the world’s highest concrete face rockfill dams (CFRDs), from the introduction of the compacted fill in the 1970s to present day projects
Hydrodynamic pressures
20 September, 2005
Dr Martin Wieland investigates hydrodynamic pressures in penstocks, bottom outlets, plugs of diversion tunnels and gates of intake structures and spillways caused by earthquakes
Financial advice
19 September, 2005
Over the next three years, the Asian Development Bank is likely to increase funding for hydro projects, provided they are integral to national energy development strategies, clear all policy and safeguard tests and include a robust mitigation programme
Stress management
23 February, 2005
Dr Martin Wieland explores the problem of tensile stresses in concrete dams
On course for success
20 January, 2005
Efrossini C. Kalkani, Iris K. Boussiakou, and Leda G. Boussiakou analyse the procedures that educational theories suggest for classroom learning, and apply these procedures in restructuring a civil engineering course in Hydraulic Structures and Dams for an international audience