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Advanced Dam Engineering for Design, Construction, and Rehabilitation

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A large dam represents an especially important type of seismic hazard evaluation problem. Not only is the dam in itself a relatively expensive project, but it is intimately involved in the whole economy, through power generation, flood control, irrigation, and so on. In addition, structural failure of a dam may lead to a major disaster because large populations may be exposed to sudden flooding.

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  1. Seismographic Station and Department of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    Bruce A. Bolt (Professor of Seismology)

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Bolt, B.A. (1988). Seismology. In: Jansen, R.B. (eds) Advanced Dam Engineering for Design, Construction, and Rehabilitation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0857-7_5

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