In recent years, as a result of increasingly intensive rainfall events, the associated water erosion and corrosion have led to the increase in breach risk of aging dams in the United States. In this ...

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA. Urbanization in arid regions requires the design of stormwater runoff quantity control structures ...

Compound flooding is a physical phenomenon that has become more destructive in recent years. Moreover, compound flooding is a broad term that envelops many different physical processes that can range ...

Ethiopia has been booming with active construction of dams within the past few decades for different infrastructural needs, but has never experienced demolition or failure of dams in its history; ...

RAS is mutated in nearly 20% of human cancers and has few direct, efficacious inhibitors. Here, we developed a synthetic protein, JAM20, to discover potential regions on RAS that may be used for ...

How do reservoir sedimentation and appropriate management techniques affect operations of dams and hydroelectric facilities? The authors cover the topic and provide illustrative case studies, ...

Modification of the previously existing emergency spillway structure at Douglas dam, located in the city of Fort Collins in Colorado, US, was completed as part of the Dry Creek Drainage Improvement ...