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Safety Design of Water Infrastructures in a Modern Era

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Over the past century, numerous water infrastructures have been built to serve the water-related need of people worldwide (Mitchell, 1990). Those larger ones often serve multiple purposes, such as agriculture, navigation, hydropower, and flooding control. Failure of such high-hazard dams, especially those with flooding control purposes, would bring catastrophic ecological and societal loss.

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Chen, X. (2020). Safety Design of Water Infrastructures in a Modern Era. In: Hossain, F. (eds) Resilience of Large Water Management Infrastructure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26432-1_8

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