DamWorld 2015 - DAM WORLD CONFERENCE

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME | Technical papers

Programme

Plenary Session | Forum on Dam Safety (21 April, 09h30)
Chair Satoru Ueda | Co-chair Laura Caldeira

Authors	Country	PAPER TITLE
Satoru Ueda	USA	DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCEMENT OF DAM SAFETY FRAMEWORK
José Rocha Afonso, J. O. Pedro and Laura Caldeira	Portugal	REVISION OF THE PORTUGUESE DAM SAFETY REGULATIONS
Carlos Motta Nunes and Josimar A. Oliveira	Brazil	5 YEARS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BRAZILIAN DAM SAFETY ACT: A CRITICAL REVIEW
Jesica T. Castillo-Rodríguez, Adrián Morales-Torres and Ignacio Escuder-Bueno	Spain	A RISK-INFORMED JOURNEY TOWARDS IMPROVED DAM SAFETY GOVERNANCE IN SPAIN

Parallel Session 1 | Open Forum Discussion on Dam Safety (21 April, 11h30)
Chair Carlos Motta Nunes | Co-chair Eliane Portela

Authors	Country	Paper title
António Pinheiro, José Mora Ramos, Laura Caldeira, António Lopes Batista, Eduardo Jossefa and Ângelo Boavida	Portugal / Mozambique	PROPOSAL FOR THE DAM SAFETY REGULATION OF MOZAMBIQUE
Vitor Camilo, Alberto Rodrigues Da Silva, Raul Pereira da Costa, José Barateiro, Eliane Portela and João Fonseca	Angola / Portugal	TOWARDS A DAMS SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ANGOLA
Eliane Portela, José Barateiro, Lígia Araujo, André Onzi, Nuno Charneca, Alexandre Anderáos, Fernanda Aquino, Alexis Massenet and Paula Freitas	Portugal / Brazil	THE BRAZILIAN NATIONAL DAM SAFETY INFORMATION SYSTEM (SNISB)
Sergio Salgado, Marcus Oliveira, Eduardo Passeto, Nadia Menegaz, Helber Viana, Josimar Oliveira and Flávia Barros	Brazil	IMPACT OF SMALL DAMS IN BRAZIL IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE RESOLUTIONS OF DAM SAFETY PUBLISHED BY THE BRAZILIAN NATIONAL WATER AGENCY (ANA)
ROUND TABLE

Parallel Session 2 | Special Session on Concrete Face Rockfill Dams I (21 April, 11h30)
Chair Manoel Sousa Freitas | Co-chair João Marcelino

Bayardo Materón

Brazil

EVOLUTION OF ZONING FOR THE CONCRETE FACE ROCKFILL DAMS (CFRD'S RELATED TO THE EXISTANCE OF LOCAL MATERIALS)

Chair Bayardo Materón | Co-chair Ricardo Santos

Authors	Country	Paper title
Hans-Martin Leitner, Markus Verdianz and Ilhan Bora	Austria	DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF KAVSAK BENDI CFRD
R. K. Gupta, R. K. Agrawal and Jaganniwas	India	STUNG TASAL DAM PROJECT, COMBODIA CONCRETE FACED ROCK FILL DAM WITH BITUMEN SHEET IN EXPOSE CONDITION AS WATER BARRIERS IN FACE SLAB JOINTS
Belkacem Moussai	Algeria	NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF THE FACE SLAB DEFORMATION OF A CONCRETE FACE ROCKFILL DAM

Plenary Session (21 April, 14h00)
Chair Carlos Henrique Medeiros | Co-chair Laura Caldeira

Vahid Afsari-Rad

Norway

ASPHALT CONCRETE CORES FOR EMBANKMENT DAMS (ACED)

Parallel Session 3 | Concrete Dams I (21 April, 14h30)
Chair Domingos Silva Matos | Co-chair António Lopes Batista

Francisco Ortega

Germany

IMMERSION VIBRATED RCC. CLOSING THE LOOP BETWEEN CONVENTIONAL AND ROLLER-COMPACTED CONCRETE DAMS

Chair Francisco Ortega | Co-chair José Piteira Gomes

Authors	Country	Paper title
Marco Neves, Jorge Sousa Cruz and António Sobral Rodrigues	Portugal	CHAFROU HARDFILL DAM: A NEW CONCEPT FOR RCC
Esperanza Menéndez, Ricardo García-Rovés and Nicanor Prendes	Spain	DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF DAMS AFFECTED EXPANSIVE REACTIONS USING STEREOMICROSCOPY AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DAMAGE LEVELS DRI AND DL
Dora Soares, António Santos Silva, José Mirão, Violeta Ramos, Isabel Fernandes and Esperanza Menéndez	Portugal	ASSESSMENT OF ALKALIS RELEASED BY AGGREGATES. CONTRIBUTION TO THE ALKALINITY INCREASE AND AAR DEVELOPMENT IN CONCRETE
António Santos Silva, Dora Soares, Isabel Fernandes, Violeta Ramos and Sara Leal	Portugal	IMPROVEMENT IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF AGGREGATES OF SLOWLY ALKALI REACTIVITY
Manuel Vieira, Bettencourt Ribeiro, Armando Camelo and Emanuel Costa	Portugal	PAC – AN OPTION FOR MASS CONCRETE STRUCTURES CONSTRUCTION
Ahmad Shayan and Norm Cribbin	Australia	CONCRETE DURABILITY INVESTIGATION OF A MAJOR HYDROELECTRIC ARCH DAM

Parallel Session 4 | Special Session on Concrete Face Rockfill Dams II (21 April, 14h30)
Chair Mateus de Brito | Co-chair João Manso

Authors	Country	Paper title
Ebrahim Mokhtarpour, Paulo T. Cruz and Fernando A.M. Marinho	Brazil	BEHAVIOUR OF EXTRA HIGH CONCRETE FACE ROCKFILL DAM IN FIRST FILLING IMPOUNDING - CASE STUDY 315 M
Ebrahim Mokhtarpour, Paulo T. Cruz and Fernando A.M. Marinho	Brazil	PREDICTION OF ZONE 3B’S DISPLACEMENT ON EXTRA HIGH CONCRETE FACE ROCKFILL DAM IN END OF CONSTRUCTION - CASE STUDY 315 M
Luís Ribeirinho, Gonçalo Tavares, Manuel Romeiro, Mário Samora, José Mateus de Brito, João Marcelino, José António Boal Paixão and José Cordeiro	Portugal	DESIGN OF MONTESINHO DAM AND EMBANKMENT MONITORING DURING CONSTRUCTION
João Marcelino, André Serrano, João Manso and José Boal Paixão	Portugal	3D ANALYSIS OF MONTESINHO CFRD USING CODE-ASTER FEM PROGRAM

Parallel Session 5 | Concrete Dams II (21 April, 16h30)
Chair José Marques Filho | Co-chair Luísa Braga Farinha

Authors	Country	Paper title
Simon-Nicolas Roth, Alexandre Lacombe, Pierre Léger and Azzedine Soulaimaini	Canada	COUPLED HYDRO-MECHANICAL CRACKING OF CONCRETE ARCH DAMS CONSIDERING DRAINAGE EFFICIENCY
Nuno Azevedo and Mariline Candeias	Portugal	A 2D DISCRETE PARTICLE MODEL FOR CONCRETE GRAVITY DAMS FAILURE SCENARIOS ANALYSIS
Nuno Azevedo and Romano Câmara	Portugal	DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF CONCRETE DAMS: FLUID STRUCTURE DISPLACEMENT BASED INTERACTION MODELS
Rikard Hellgren and Tobias Gasch	Sweden	INFLUENCE OF FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION ON A CONCRETE DAM DURING SEISMIC EXCITATION
Bernhard Mayer and Miroslav Marence	Austria	IMPROVING THE SEISMIC STABILITY OF GRAVITY DAMS BY CURVING THE LAYOUT
Ivo Dias, Xavier Oliver, J.V. Lemos and Oriol Lloberas-Valls	Portugal	ADVANCED NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES FOR MODELING TENSILE CRACK PROPAGATION IN GRAVITY DAMS
Renato Pereira, António L. Batista and Luís C. Neves	Portugal	SAFETY EVALUATION OF CONCRETE GRAVITY DAMS SLIDING CONSIDERING THE VARIABILITY OF ROCK MASS FOUNDATION HYDRAULIC AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

Parallel Session 6 | Embankment Dams (21 April, 16h30)
Chair Terezinha Espósito | Co-chair João Bilé Serra

Authors	Country	Paper title
Ricardo Correia dos Santos, Laura Caldeira, and Emanuel Maranha das Neves	Portugal	LABORATORY STUDY ON THE SUFFUSION BEHAVIOUR OF COARSE GAP-GRADED SOILS FOR USE AS POTENTIAL UPSTREAM CRACK FILLERS IN ZONED DAMS
Vanda Malveira, Francisco Gomes and Fernanda Furtado	Brazil	VALIDATION OF GEOTECHNICAL STRENGTH PARAMETERS APPLIED TO A DAMAGED DAM
Paulo T. Cruz, Bayardo Materón and Manoel Sousa Freitas Jr.	Brazil	FLOW OF WATER THROUGH DAMS AND FOUNDATIONS
Francesco Federico and Marco Iannucci	Italy	ANALYSIS OF PARTICLE MIGRATION PHENOMENA AFFECTING SOME EMBANKMENT DAMS MATERIALS
Pierre-Yves Hicher, Yinfu Jin, Christophe Dano and Zhenyu Yin	France	A CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR ROCKFILLS CONSIDERING GRAIN BREAKAGE AND SIZE EFFECT
Carolina Flórez, Maria Claudia Barbosa, Terezinha Espósito and Julia Gomes Pinto Carapiá	Brazil	PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF IRON MINING TAILINGS
António Veiga Pinto and Filipa Sousa	Portugal	THE FUTURE HYDROELECTRIC POWER DAMS IN PORTUGAL:AN ANALYSIS IN VIEW DAM CONSTRUCTION GLOBAL TREND

Plenary Session (22 April, 09h00)
Chair José Polimón | Co-chair António Tavares de Castro

José Marques Filho

Brazil

DURABILITY AND PATHOLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS IN CONCRETE HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES IN BRAZIL

ICOLD Presentation (22 April, 09h30)

José Polimón

Spain

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS WORKSHOP (22 April, 09h40)
Chair José Mora Ramos | Co-chair Ivo Dias

José Polimón

Spain

TRAINING DAM PROFESSIONALS TO CLOSE THE DOUBLE GAP (KNOWLEDGE AND GENERATIONAL)

Graphical Posters
Chair José Polimón | Co-chairs José Mora Ramos, Ivo Dias and Ricardo Santos

Tanıl Arkış	Turkey	EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF FLOOD PROPAGATION DUE TO TRAPEZOIDAL BREACH IN THE DISTORTED PHYSICAL MODEL OF ÜRKMEZ DAM
Andrea Brito	Portugal	USE OF SOIL-ROCKFILL MIXTURES (SRM) IN EMBANKMENT DAMS
António Muralha	Portugal	CANIÇADA DAM COMPLEMENTARY SPILLWAY: PHYSICAL MODEL HYDRAULIC TESTS
Jesica Castillo-Rodríguez	Spain	TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR MULTI-HAZARD FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT: INCLUDING FAILURE OF DAMS AND OTHER FLOOD DEFENSE INFRASTRUCTURES
Emílio Santos	Brazil	DAM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MODEL BASED ON CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT PROCESS
Ricardo Santos	Portugal	LIMITATION OF THE PROGRESSION OF INTERNAL EROSION IN ZONED DAMS
Carlos Serra	Portugal	EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF DAM CONCRETE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES
Miguel Silva	Portugal	COMPLEMENTARY SPILLWAY OF SALAMONDE DAM. 3D NUMERICAL MODELLING VALIDATED WITH PHYSICAL MODEL RESULTS

Parallel Session 7 | Concrete Dams III (22 April, 11h30)
Chair Pierre Léger | Co-chair Nuno Azevedo

Authors	Country	Paper title
Frédéric Dufour, Maxime Tatin, Alexandre Simon, Matthieu Briffaut and Jean-Paul Fabre	France	THERMAL DISPLACEMENTS OF CONCRETE DAMS: ACCOUNTING FOR WATER TEMPERATURE PROFILE IN STATISTICAL MODEL
Marius Bühlmann, Marco Gerber, David Vetsch, Robert M. Boes	Switzerland	DAM BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS WITH THE DAMBASE SOFTWARE
Ricardo Pimentel, João Gomes Cunha, Joaquim Figueiras, C. Rodrigues, António Tavares de Castro and Noemi Schclar Leitão	Portugal	EXPERIENCE ACQUIRED WITH THE APPLICATION OF NOVEL FIBER OPTIC TRANSDUCERS TO THE ALTO CEIRA II DAM
Noemi Leitão, António Tavares de Castro and João Cunha	Portugal	ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVED BEHAVIOUR OF ALTO CEIRA II DAM DURING THE FIRST FILLING OF THE RESERVOIR
Eloisa Castilho, Noemi Leitão and Carlos Fernandes	Portugal	THERMAL ANALYSIS OF CONCRETE DAMS DURING CONSTRUCTION PHASE
Sérgio Oliveira, André Silvestre, Margarida Espada, Patrícia Salvado and Romano Câmara	Portugal	MONITORING THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF CABRIL DAM
Anthony Simmonds	USA	VIBRATING WIRE SENSORS FOR LONG TERM MONITORING OF DAMS

Parallel Session 8 | Embankment Dams and Geomembranes (22 April, 11h30)
Chair Vahid Afsari-Rad | Co-chair Andrea Brito

Authors	Country	Paper title
Jose Nuno Lima, Vasco Conde and Henrique Candeias	Portugal	QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF GNSS WITH SHORT-LENGTH SESSION IN THE DISPLACEMENT MEASURMENT OF A LARGE EMBANKMENT DAM
Rui Costa, Jorge Sousa Cruz and António Sobral Rodrigues	Portugal	GEOLOGICAL AND GEOTECHNICAL STUDIES FOR THE CHERTIOUA DAM PROJECT – ALGERIA
Wan-Huan Zhou and Xu Xu	Macau	COMPARISON STUDY BETWEEN MEASURED AND PREDICTED VALUES OF SHEAR STRENGTH FOR UNSATURATED COMPLETELY DECOMPOSED GRANITE SOIL
Sonja Gamse and Michael Oberguggenberger	Austria	ASSESSMENT OF LONG TERM GEODETIC OBSERVATIONS ON EMBANKMENT DAM
María Sierra	Colombia	GEOTECHNICAL PROCEDURE FOR DESIGN OF ITUANGO EARTH CORE ROCKFILL DAM
María Sierra and Luis Cárdenas	Colombia	LABORATORY AND FIELD ROCKFILL DEFORMATION MODULUS ESTIMATES
Alberto Scuero, Gabriella Vaschetti, Giovanna Lilliu	Switzerland	GEOMEMBRANE SYSTEMS IN PUMPED STORAGE SCHEMES: CARPI EXPERIENCE

Plenary Session (22 April, 14h00)
Chair Túlio Bittencourt | Co-chair José Muralha

Manuel Pinho de Miranda

Portugal

PORTUGUESE HYDROELECTRIC DEVELOPMENTS. CURRENT TRENDS OF STRUCTURAL SAFETY CONTROL

Announcement: ICOLD 25th Congress / ICOLD 83rd Annual Meeting,
Symposium Hydropower'15 (22 April, 14h30)

Carole Rosenlund

Norway

Parallel Session 9 | Dam Foundations (22 April, 14h40)
Chair Jorge Vazques | Co-chair Luís Lamas

Authors	Country	Paper title
Markus Verdianz, Selami Güven and Ilhan Bora	Austria	GROUTING UNDER DIFFICULT GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
João Casaca and Vasco Conde	Portugal	QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION OF A ROCK MASS DEFORMATION MEASUREMENT
Rogério Mota, Jorge Neves and Fernando Santos	Portugal	GEOPHYSICAL METHODS APPLIED TO THE ASSESSMENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND GEOTECHNICAL CONDITIONS OF DAM SITES: THE CASE STUDY OF PEDRÓGÃO DAM (PORTUGAL)
Margarida Espada and Luís Lamas	Portugal	ROCK MASS BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS OF THE SALAMONDE II powerhouse
Isabella Figueira, Ramon Rivas and Marcos Soares	Brazil	GEOLOGICAL MAPPING AND FOUNDATION GEOMECHANICS CHARACTERIZATION FOR THE IDENTIFICATION PLACES FOR DETAILED MONITORING IN PLANTS MAINTENANCE

Parallel Session 10 | Emergency Action Plan, Risk Assessment, Warning Systems (22 April, 14h40)
Chair Alexius Vogel | Co-chair Teresa Viseu

Authors	Country	Paper title
João Cunha, Adriano Oliveira and Pedro Vieira Soares	Portugal	THE EMERGENCY ACTION PLANS OF THE BAIXO SABOR DAMS
Dora Roque, Daniele Perissin, Ana Falcão, Ana Fonseca and Maria Henriques	Portugal / USA	DAM REGIONAL SAFETY WARNING USING TIME-SERIES INSAR TECHNIQUES
Flávio Sohler, José Roberto Ribas and Juliana Crenitte Ribas Severo	Brazil	A MULTICRITERIA RISK ASSESSMENT FOR LARGE SCALE HYDROELECTRIC PLANT PROJECTS
Alexandre Melo, Terezinha Espósito and Mauro Naghettini	Brazil	QUALITATIVE RISK ANALISYS APPLIED TO EMBANKMENT DAMS
C. H. de A. C. Medeiros	Brazil	DAM SAFETY CRITERIA MUST INCLUDE RISK FACTORS NON-TECHNICAL
Helber Viana, Eduardo Passeto, Josimar Oliveira, Flavia Barros, Sérgio Salgado, Marcus Oliveira and Nádia Menegaz	Brazil	RISK CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA ESTABLISHED BY THE BRAZILIAN DAM SAFETY REGULATIONS APPLIED ON SMALL WATER STORAGE DAMS
José Melo, Lígia Araujo, Manuel Oliveira, Tiago Martins, Márcio P. Pinto and Paula P. Freitas	Portugal / Brazil	HAZARD POTENTIAL CLASSIFICATION OF DAMS USING A SIMPLIFIED METHODOLOGY
Antonio Lambertini and Teresa Viseu	Brazil / Portugal	DOWNSTREAM VALLEY HAZARD CLASSIFICATION OF ITABIRA MUNICIPALITY DAMS

Parallel Session 11 | Concrete Dams IV (22 April, 16h30)
Chair Manuel Pinho Miranda | Co-chair Jorge Pereira Gomes

Authors	Country	Paper title
Ana Marcelino, José Calixto, Adriana Gumieri, Maria Ferreira, Marcos Silva and Anna Costa	Brazil	A METHODOLOGY FOR TARGETING SULFUR COMPOUND LEVELS IN CONCRETES FOR HYDROELECTRIC DAMS
Armando Camelo, Vanessa Gaspar and Pedro Ferreira Da Silva	Portugal	THE CONCRETE QUALITY CONTROL IN EDP HYDROELECTRIC SCHEMES
Carlos Serra, António Batista and Nuno Azevedo	Portugal	COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF CONCRETE DEFORMABILITY TEST RESULTS OF PORTUGUESE LARGE DAMS
Maria Henriques and Pedro Ramos	Portugal	THERMAL IMAGING OF CONCRETE DAM WALLS TO SUPPORT THE CONTROL OF THE EVOLUTION OF PATHOLOGIES
Maria Henriques and Dora Roque	Portugal	UNMANNED AHERIAL VEHICLES (UAV) AS A SUPPORT TO VISUAL INSPECTIONS OF CONCRETE DAMS
Joaquim J. M. Sousa, Milan Lazecky, Ivana Hlavacova, Matus Bakon, Gloria Patricio and Daniele Perissin	Portugal / Czech Republic / Slovakia / USA	SATELLITE SAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR MONITORING DAM DEFORMATIONS IN PORTUGAL
Juan Mata and António Tavares de Castro	Portugal	ASSESSMENT OF STORED AUTOMATED MEASUREMENTS IN CONCRETE DAMS
João Custódio, António Ribeiro and António Santos Silva	Portugal	ALKALI-AGGREGATE REACTION, AAR – DEALING WITH AAR IN LARGE CONCRETE STRUCTURES

Parallel Session 12 | Appurtenant Works, Environment Issues, New Materials, Management (22 April, 16h30)
Chair Felix Hernando | Co-chair José Falcão de Melo

Authors	Country	Paper title
M.Ş. Güney, G. Tayfur, T. Arkis, and G. Bombar	Turkey	EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF FLOOD PROPAGATION DUE TO TRAPEZOIDAL BREACH IN THE DISTORTED PHYSICAL MODEL OF ÜRKMEZ DAM
Elsa Alves, Felix Hernando and Rafael Chacón	Portugal / Spain	DAIVÕES DAM SPILLWAY: A NOVEL SOLUTION FOR THE STILLING BASIN
Cuneyt Yavuz, Ali Ersin Dincer, Kutay Yilmaz and Samet Dursun	Turkey	HEAD LOSS ESTIMATION OF WATER JETS FROM FLIP BUCKET OF CAKMAK-1 DIVERSION WEIR AND HEPP
António Muralha, Lúcia Couto, Manuel Oliveira, José Dias Silva, Teresa Alvarez and Ricardo Sardinha	Portugal	SALAMONDE DAM COMPLEMENTARY SPILLWAY. DESIGN, HYDRAULIC MODEL AND ONGOING WORKS
Nima Tavakoli Shirazi	Iran	INVESTIGATING THE VARIATION OF GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS IN RUBBER DAMS DUE TO CHANGES OF INTERNAL PRESSURES
Miguel Silva, Sérgio Costa and António H. Cardoso	Portugal	SLIT CHECK-DAMS FOR STONY TYPE DEBRIS FLOWS MITIGATION. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO EVALUATE SEDIMENT CONTROL EFFICIENCY
Dora Roque, Ana Fonseca, Nuno Afonso, Maria Henriques and José Muralha	Portugal	VISUAL INSPECTION AIDED BY DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: APPLICATION TO THE SLOPES OF FOZ TUA DAM
C. Granell Ninot, L. Mendes, Teresa Viseu, J. Granell Vicent, A. Duque Carrero, J. Ortas González, O. Herrero Domínguez, F. Río Iglesias and E. Ruíz Gutiérrez	Spain / Portugal	EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDY OF A CHUTE SPILLWAY

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