Abstract:
It is now more than ten years since the manuscript of the first edition was completed.
This new (second) edition gave me a good opportunity to correct some errors, to update
the text and references throughout, and, most importantly, to rewrite and enlarge parts
of the text in response to some important developments in the field of dam design,
analysis and construction. Major changes were imposed by the development in the
field of embankment dam analysis (Chapters 8 and 9), concrete faced rockfill dams
(Chapter 12), rockfill dams with a geomembrane facing (Chapter 13), rockfill dams
with internal non-earth core (Chapter 14), roller-compacted concrete gravity dams, and
hardfill dams (Chapter 18), and roller-compacted concrete arch dams (Chapter 20).
The main aim of the book remains the same as that of the first edition, i.e. to
provide a complete and comprehensive picture of dams and the appurtenant hydraulic
structures which are essential for their safe functioning, to: engineers specialising in
the design, construction and exploitation of dams, to researchers and higher degree
candidates in science, and to post-graduates in the fields of civil engineering, hydraulic
engineering and environmental protection. The author also hopes that it will prove
a useful text for students in their final year of undergraduate studies in the relevant
disciplines.
The author would like to thank the publisher for the great effort made in providing
the opportunity for this second edition
