Recent cases of dam failures indicate that the safe operation and proactive maintenance critical infrastructure is significant importance considering growing number ageing dams increase in intensity frequency extreme climatic events. The current procedures to assess performance infrastructure, usually based on geodetic geotechnical instrumentation, do not provide repeatable reliable information...

According to the former researcher’s presented relations for flow through rock-fill porous media, the effects of physical characteristics was not studied separately. Hence, due to the application of these relations, physical characteristics of porous materials effect must be investigated separately. In various constructed physical models of porous media, the effect of several variables such as ...

This study aims to simulate water seepage and identify areas of weakness in the foundations through right left sides proposed Makhool dam northern Iraq, using finite element method by advanced computer software (SEEP/ W, 2012). The earth fill is 3670 m long on Tigris River. Many attempts were made ascertain program results supposed compare with those other analytical methods verify program. are...