Designing Spillways to Mitigate Failure Modes: On-Demand
This course will present potential failure modes for chute spillways and ways to design these spillways to minimize the potential for failure.
Key Takeaways:
1. Understanding of failure modes such as cavitation and hydraulic jacking that can affect chute spillways.
2. Evaluation of potential spillway design and construction details that could lead to failure modes.
3. Evaluation of potential spillway failure modes.
4. Understanding of design details that can help prevent spillway failures.
5. Importance of our concern for spillway chute failures.
John Trojanowski
President/Trojanowski Dam Engineering, Limited
John Trojanowski has over 40 years of experience related to spillway design and analysis, including 37 years as a dam engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation specializing in waterways and concrete dams. For the past three years he has been an independent consultant, and recently served as a member of the Independent Forensic Team for Oroville Dam spillway failure. He is also member of ASDSO, ASCE, and USSD.
Designing Spillways to Mitigate Failure Mode
- Introduction
- Potential Spillway Chute Failure Modes
- Question Period No. 1
- Chute Design Features and Details
- Question Period No. 2
- Repair/Replace
- Question Period No. 3
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