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Publications
 

 

 

Design and construction of dams:

-"2.12.1. Design and Construction of Dams, Reservoirs, and Balancing Lakes"
-EOLSS UNESCO
- ICOLD COMMITTEE ON GOVERNANCE OF DAM PROJECTS - Role of dams in the 21 th Century to achieve a sustainable development target

Dams safety improvement and cost savings :

-ICOLD studies on cost saving opportunities
-What sort of risk analysis
-Non structural measures
-Classification of reported failures
-General status of reservoir and dam safety in China
-Dam construction sites accident prevention

Reservoirs sedimentation :

-Sedimentation Management in hydro reservoirs

Spillways :

 

-Shall we forget the traditional « Design flood »?
-ICOLD 20th Congress: Question 79
-Hydro Africa 2003: Optimised solutions for existing spillways
-Analysis and low cost mitigation of the flood risk of Asian dams
-Xian symposium November 2005 (Power Point)
-Xian symposium November 2005 (Word)
-ICID Congress Beijing 2005 (Word)
- ICOLD 22 nd Congress  Question 84. (Power Point)

 


Piano Keys weirs:

-The Piano Keys Weirs : a new cost-effective solution for spillways
- Labyrinth spillways  : P.K.WEIRS
- Design of a new economic shappe of weir.

Small and medium dams :

-Low cost methods for safety improvement of medium and small dams
-Dams less than thirty meters high: ICOLD bulletin 109 (summary and conclusion)
-Guidelines for small dams : Conclusion / Petits barrages : Avant propos et Conclusion

 

Tidal Plants :

-Asia 2006 Session 4 10 2006
-Large Tidal plants (pdf)

Energy storage offshore :

-The energy used worldwide may be increased fivefold and 80% renewable :
The "Emerald Lakes" (doc)

-The "Emerald Lakes"
(Hydropower and Dams : Issue 1 - 2008) (pdf)