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Unless it is properly drained, the phreatic (or groundwater) surface can extend all the way through a dam and seep out the bottom of the downstream slope, or toe. Since the earth below this surface is saturated under hydraulic pressure, any structural weakness could cause a leak. A breach failure could quickly follow. The author explains how a tensiometer/piezometer sensor set installed in a dam, could provide signatures for failure events from some future catalog of engineered dam failures.
Published in:
Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, IEEE
(Volume:6
,
Issue:
2
)
Date of Publication: June 2003
- Page(s):
- 13 - 18
- ISSN :
- 1094-6969
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 7646976
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/MIM.2003.1200278
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
- 21 May 2003
- Issue Date :
- June 2003
- Sponsored by :
- IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
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