SANCOLD YPF Webinar: Assumptions and Calibration – Should We Care About It?

Louis’ experience in the dam engineering field has shown him the lack of appropriate consideration for the assumptions made, especially during design, and the insufficient attention to calibration of theory when performing any engineering calculation. In many cases, this leads to incorrect assessments of dam safety.

During the webinar, he will touch on the following subjects:

• Flood hydrology: Should we as an industry only plug information into formulas at a desktop level? The same is true for water resource hydrology.
• Stability analysis and its impact on design layouts and future operational decisions.
• Behavioural analysis

The issues to be highlighted are of high importance for the technical people involved with dams as well as dam owners.