August 18, 2022
Where:Online
Underwater Construction and Design: a Modern Approach
2 PDHs
The speakers, all involved in various aspects of underwater construction, will touch base on:
• What will it cost? The numbe…
DetailsSeptember 15, 2022
Where:Online
Developments in Seismic Hazard Assessment in the
Central and Eastern United States
2 PDHs
The course will begin with a description of the available approaches, seismic source models, and …
DetailsOctober 04 - 05, 2022
Where:Lowry Conference Center, Denver, CO
Denver, CO
October 4-5 2022
Eligible for 16 PDHs
Overview / Learning Objectives
The Dam and Levee Safety industry is in the process of adopting Risk-Informed Decision Making (RIDM) as a framework for identifying and managing risks associated with dams and levees. A core component of RIDM is risk analysis workshops. In these workshops a team of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), aided by a Facilitator:
1. Consider all the relevant information for a specific dam or levee (drawings, photos, history, studies, etc.)
2. Select the appropriate approach to …
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October 04 - 05, 2022
Where:Lowry Conference Center, Denver, CO
Denver, CO
October 4 – 5, 2022
Eligible for 16 PDHs
The workshop will highlight how LifeSim was developed to effectively support reduction of life safety risks associated with flooding; evaluate existing and residual risks against tolerable risk guidelines; calculate life loss and economic damages; understand life loss dynamics associated with floods; and create or improve existing emergency action plans (EAPs).
Several Federal agencies and dam and levee owners have made significant efforts over the years to better understand and quantify the risk of their dam and levee portfolios. The dam and levee safety community is relatively familiar with potential failure mode analysis and estimating failure likelihoods, but there is less…
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October 06, 2022
Where:Lowry Conference Center, Denver, CO
Denver, CO
October 6, 2022
Eligible for 8 PDHs
Static liquefaction has been in the spotlight of different technical communities as it has been associated with numerous recent failures of tailings storage facilities (e.g., the 2019 failure of Dam I at the Corrego de Feijao mine in Brumadinho, Brazil) and water reservoir dams (e.g., the 2020 failure of Edenville dam in Michigan). Similarly, earthquake-induced liquefaction has caused major damage to earth dams and other infrastructure (e.g., slope deformation of Lower San Fernando dam during the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, failure of the Tapo Canyon dailings dam during the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and flow slide of the Las Palmas tailings dam during the 2011 Maule earthquake).
This 1-day workshop will discuss core concepts of static and cyclic liquefaction relying on the critical state soil mechanics framework and outline how static and cyclic liquefaction …
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October 04 - 06, 2022
Where:Lowry Conference Center, Denver, CO
Denver, CO
October 4-6 2022
Eligible for 22 PDHs
Over the last several years there has been a strong move towards incorporating Risk Informed Decision Making as a cornerstone of dam safety programs. These efforts have built on the approaches used by federal dam safety owners (Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Tennessee Valley Authority) and now include utilities and state dam safety programs. In April of this year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) put into effect new regulations (specifically 18 CFR 12) to require a Level 2 risk analysis (which utilizes semi-quantitative approaches) as part of the comprehensive assessments of dams.
Many PFMA’s have been performed for state- and federally-regulated dams, and as a result…
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October 04 - 06, 2022
Where:Lowry Conference Center, Denver, CO
Denver, CO
October 4-6 2022
Eligible for 24 PDHs
Part of the 2022 Fall Workshop Series taking place in person in Denver, CO, Bruce Brand’s “Structural Behavior of Dams” is a 3-day course on Dam Engineering. It is at the same time very theoretical and very practical. Theory is presented and then applied to real-world dam engineering situations. Bruce originally developed the course for FERC engineers, but now is offering it to the dam engineering community.
Classes are small; no more than 12 students.
Target Audience: Experienced engineers, this workshop will not be appropriate for novices…
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November 17, 2022
Where:Online
Team Dynamics – Formation and Cycle
2 PDHs
Research into team dynamics has highlighted psychological safety as a distinguishing characteristic of high performing teams. Within such teams, th…
DetailsApril 17 - 21, 2023
Where:Charleston, SC
April 17 – 21, 2023
Infrastructure Resiliency Through Risk Management
Join USSD and colleagues in beautiful Charleston, SC at the North Charleston Embassy Suites.
Call for Papers Opens May 12, 2022
Abstracts Due July 7, 2022
Dam and levee professionals are invited to submit abstracts addressing the conference theme and other technical topics.
Abstract acceptance or rejection notices will be sent on 9.1.2022. For those that are accepted, draft papers or expanded abstracts will be due 10.24.2022.
Abstract Submission Site: https://catalyst.omnipress.com/ussd_2023
Technical Program Chair: Ed Toms, AECOM
Technical Program Vice-Chair: Aimee Corn, Gannett Fleming
Conference Email: 2023conference@ussdams.org
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