Embankment dam breach analysis encompasses the investigation and modelling of failure mechanisms in earthen structures that retain water. Research in this field addresses both the physical and ...

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Nearly three months after the Edenville Dam failed, a group of Michigan engineers have named erosion as a major concern for the property. On July 24, TRC Engineers Michigan Inc. — the local branch of ...

For our nations’ first engineering force, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, dams and the massive reservoirs of fresh water they preserve, have become an essential element of its overall mission. Allen ...

File Photo/DAILY. Buy this photo. The city of Ann Arbor officially launched the Barton Dam embankment remediation project in early March. The project, expected to be completed in June of 2027, ...

Long before he became an associate professor of Civil Engineering and an expert on the effects of earthquakes on dams, Richard “Richie” Armstrong was a young man in Canada, dreaming about California.

LANSING, MI — A sudden loss of soil strength under saturated conditions likely caused the catastrophic failure of the Edenville Dam near Midland last spring, according to an investigation report ...

The Red Rock Hydroelectric Plant near Pella, Iowa, was commissioned late last year adding a new hydroelectric power-generating facility to an existing flood control dam that previously had no ...

The Michigan Attorney General’s Office is planning to pursue a judgment against Lee Mueller, the managing partner of the former owner of the Edenville Dam, over the dam's 2020 failure that caused ...

MARLETTE LAKE, Nev. – Shovels have hit the dirt as part of the Marlette Lake Dam rehabilitation project’s groundbreaking ceremony held at the Spooner Lake State Park Visitor’s Center on Thursday, June ...