Course Objectives
- To familiarize students with the ongoing debate about dam construction, pros and contras throughout the world, the need for water/energy and water/energy politics in Turkey and in the world
- To familiarize students not only with the technical aspects of dam engineering and to explain also the social concerns in dam engineering
- To provide students the understanding of dam behaviour throughout the life of a dam, namely under construction, impoundment, in operation and in long term behaviour
- To familiarize students with dam failures and mechanisms of these failures
- To familiarize students with inadequate plans/designs/constructions and their consequences
- To explain students why an appropriate instrumentation system is needed and what has to be measured to predict the performance of a dam
- To provide students to evaluate the data taken from different case studies to understand the mechanism of a dam behaviour and the ability to test the design assumptions