TY  - BOOK
ED  - NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS.
TI  - Safety of Dams: Flood and Earthquake Criteria
PY  - 1985///
CY  - National Academy Press
KW  - GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
KW  - DAMS
KW  - Geotechnical
KW  - U.S.A., Washington, D.C
N1  - 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
ER  -