Introduction You may not think much about using water for drinking, cooking, washing or swimming. But did you know that water can also be used to make electricity? Try this fun activity to learn about ...

In this paper, an attempt is made to 3D modeling and analysis of gravity dam of solid element using STAAD.Pro. The load and load combinations are taken as per IS 6512. Modelling of dam is considered ...

A huge dam in the state boundary between Arizona State and Nevada State in America "Hoover Dam"Is a tremendously huge dam of about 40 billion tons of water storage. Considering that the total ...

A national seminar on 'Seismic safety of concrete gravity dams' was organised in New Delhi on Friday. KANPUR: The National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) at IIT-Kanpur, Building ...

When the Gross Dam was planned outside Boulder, Colo. in the early 1950s, project engineers had an idea that the population served by utility Denver Water might increase, so they designed the ...

What a catastrophe! Water is crashing over the top of the dam, and dozens of boaters have been sucked into its deadly current! A similar disaster took place on Memorial Day in 1889, when the South ...

You've advised the resort owners to repair the dam. They're thrilled. In 1995, when a spillway gate failed in the Folsom Dam in California, engineers spent more than $100 million to repair it.