Selecting and Accommodating Inflow Design Floods for Dams
This online engineering PDH provides basic guidelines for selecting and accommodating inflow design floods for dams based on current and accepted practices.
Appropriate selection of the Inflow Design Flood is the first step in evaluating and designing a dam to address hydrologic potential failure modes and reduce risks to the public. Existing guidelines of most state and federal agencies for evaluating the hydrologic safety of dams were written in the late 1970s. Since that time, significant technological and analytical advances have led to better watershed and rainfall information, improvements in the analysis of extreme floods, greater sophistication in means to quantify incremental dam failure consequences, and tools for evaluating hydrologic events in a risk-based context.
This 4 PDH online course is applicable to geotechnical and civil engineers, dam owners or regulators, and other technical personnel interested in gaining a better knowledge on inflow design floods for dams.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Learning about the dam classification system
- Understanding the guidelines for selecting the inflow design flood
- Learning about spillway characteristics (mainly controlled versus uncontrolled)
- Familiarizing with routing the inflow design flood
- Familiarizing with freeboard requirements
- Defining terminology and acronyms associated with the overall scope of the course
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