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2016 – Would Bowties and Critical Controls Contribute to the Prevention of High Consequence / Low Frequency Dam Failures?

2016 – Why may Coastal Reservoir Dominate Future Water Supply?

2016 – When is a Hazard not a Hazard? A Review of Fatality Factors for Dambreak Consequence Assessments.

2016 – Warning and Mobilization of Populations at Risk of Dam Failure

2016 – Upcoming New National Seismic Hazard Assessment of Australia – Improvements & Novel ideas

2016 – Tullaroop Dam: Dealing with Filter Breakdown and Compaction During Construction

2016 – Trustpower’s Approach to Risk Management on a Portfolio Basis

2016 – Towards Improved Efficiency of Dambreak Modelling and Consequence Assessment Projects

2016 – The Use of a Safety Case to Demonstrate ALARP

2016 – The Reliance on Engineering Judgement to Inform Tailings Dam Failure Impact Assessments

2016 – The Myth of the Perfect Seepage Barrier

2016 – The Emergency and Carryover Storage Project Creates a Lasting Legacy for Water Reliability in San Diego, California

2016 – Tailings Dams: Failure Impact Assessment Framework

2016 – Spillway gates, CFD analysis, Uplift forces, Hydrodynamic forces, Flow Modification, Gate Locking Mechanism.

2016 – Seismic Strengthening Design for Pre-stressed Concrete Penstocks

2016 – Seismic Hazard Assessment Methods including Deterministic and Probabilistic Methods and their uses in Dam Design

2016 – Seismic Assessment and Life Extension for the Mahinerangi Dam

2016 – Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in Dam Design

2016 – Roads Can Drive Your Risk! A Look at the Importance of Itinerants on Roads in your Consequence Assessments

2016 – Retarding Basin Portfolio Risk Assessment – Life in the Fast Lane

2016 – Probabilistic Slope Failure Risk Estimation of a Dam with Zones of Weak Foundation Material

2016 – Paradise Dam – An Analysis of Severe Damage to a Modern Dam

2016 – Non-Destructive Testing of Dam Structures to Facilitate Information Based Decision Making When Determining Dam Risk Profiles

2016 – Maintenance and Testing of Post-Tensioned Anchors for Dams and Appurtenant Structures

2016 – Life Loss Estimation from Flood Events: A New Approach to Population Redistribution with Uncertainty

2016 – Lies, Dam Lies, and Statistics: The Compilation and Analysis of a New Zealand Inventory of Dams

2016 – Lenthall Dam Crest Gates – From Agony to Relief

2016 – Kanmantoo Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) – Optimising the Design, Construction and Operation of a Fully HDPE Lined Tailings Storage Facility

2016 – Kangaroo Creek Dam Embankment Raising and Stabilisation – Balancing Competing Objectives

2016 – Investigation of the Foundation, Sub-surface Drainage and Slab Anchor Degradation of a Concrete-lined Spillway: Fairbairn Dam, Queensland

2016 – Hedges Dam – Upstream Face Slip from Rapid Drawdown and Subsequent Remedial Works

2016 – Geotechnical Characterisation of a Tropical Residual Soil in an Embankment Abutment

2016 – Extending the Useful Life of Dams in Diverse and Innovative Ways: Three South African case studies

2016 – Estimating the Probability of Breach for Overtopping of Low to Medium Height Homogenous Earthfill Embankments

2016 – Estimating the Maximum Credible Earthquake (MCE) and its Application in Australia and New Zealand

2016 – Design Considerations for the Stortemelk Hydropower, South Africa

2016 – Damage to the Fairbairn Dam Spillway and Subsequent Analyses and Design of the Remedial Works

2016 – Dam Safety Management for Upgrade of an Extreme Consequence Storage

2016 – Constructions of a High Capacity Post Tensioned Permanent Carbon Fibre Ground Anchor

2016 – Comparing CRCFORGE Estimates and the New Rare Design Rainfalls

2016 – Characteristics of Near Fault Ground Motions for Seismic Design

2016 – Calculation of the Probability of Failure of Impervious Concrete Lining of Plunge Pools Loaded by High-Velocity Jet Impact

2016 – Benchmarking 2D Hydraulic Models for Dambreak and Consequence Assessments

2016 – Assessing Blasting Impacts on Embankment Dams: Limitations with Adopting an Equivalent Earthquake Approach

2016 – Applying Mechanical Thinking to Dam Strategy

2016 – An Earthquake Alarm and Situation Awareness Tool Developed For Areas of Low to Moderate Seismic Hazard: Recent Developments and Past Results