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THE GEOTECHNICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EMPLACEMENT CONDITIONS OF MIHOIESTI DAM

M. Toderas

Abstract

Large Dams are a particularly important case of seismic risk assessment. On the one hand, the dams themselves have a high value, having implications for the whole economy, through the production of electricity, water supply systems for irrigation and flood prevention, etc. On the other hand, structural damage of a dam can lead to major disasters, the population exposure to effects caused by sudden floods. The situation in Romania is such a kind that should be given to the future safety of existing dams. The first reason is that these dams were designed and constructed on the basis of technical rules, which the majority are no longer in force, a second reason is the major climate changes in the last period, which have led to the volume of water in increasingly large lakes in the accumulation of them. A third reason logically, is the length of existing dams. Accumulation Mihoiesti dam was to ensure, primarily, the water in the area of mines Apuseni Mountains - Rosia Poieni use fall created to produce electricity and other uses of the river basin Aries.

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