Safety of Dams: Flood and Earthquake Criteria 

 - National Academy Press  1985 
 - p. 
<br/><br/>1. Introduction 2. Extreme floods and earthquakes-the nature of the problem 3. Summary of present practices on dam safety standards 4. History of development of present practices 5. Design flood estimates: methods and critique 6. Design earthquake estimates: methods and critique 7. Consideration of risk in dam safety evaluations 8. Risk and the calculus of legal liability in dam failures 9. Proposed hydrologic criteria 10. Proposed earthquake criteria 11. Continuing development of hydrologic and earthquake engineering technologies 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING.<br/>DAMS.<br/>Geotechnical.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>U.S.A., Washington, D.C.