Assessing the Safety of Existing Embankment Dams
暫譯: 評估現有堤壩的安全性

許多現有的堤壩是依據低於當前要求的標準設計和建造的，這可能對下游人口構成風險。壩主必須評估這些結構是否提供足夠的安全性，或是否需要升級以降低風險至可接受的水平。本書深入分析了壩體失效的機制以及相關的工程評估方法。

本書提供了全面的堤壩安全評估方法，涵蓋四種關鍵的失效模式：溢流、坡度不穩定、地震載荷下的變形，以及內部侵蝕和管道效應。評估方法包括確定性（基於標準）、風險增強的確定性、定量風險評估（QRA）和簡化的QRA方法。這些方法代表了當前行業的實踐，並基於作者在澳大利亞、新西蘭、加拿大、美國和巴拿馬超過200座壩的安全評估和升級設計的豐富經驗。

本書旨在幫助壩主、他們的顧問工程師和工程地質學家制定可辯護的安全評估和現有壩的升級設計。

Robin Fell has 58 years of experience in dam engineering, geomechanics, landslides and slope stability, applied to a wide range of projects and in several countries. This has involved work in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Hong Kong, Thailand Tanzania, New Zealand, Canada, Panama and USA, as well as throughout Australia. He has specialised in embankment dam engineering, geotechnical engineering of dams and associated structures, and risk assessment for dams and landslides. He has worked on over 150 dams, and a further 100 dams in portfolio risk assessments. He worked for 10 years with the Australian Government on Hydropower projects, and 10 years with consulting Geotechnical Engineers before being appointed Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at UNSW in 1985. There he supervised research into internal erosion and piping of embankment dams, and risk assessment of dams and landslides. He has consulted on peer review panels for dams throughout Australia, and in Canada, USA, Panama and New Zealand. He is acknowledged internationally for his expertise in internal erosion and piping of dams, and risk assessment for dams and landslides. He was the lead author of the book Geotechnical Engineering of Dams, published by Taylor & Francis, and ICOLD Bulletin 164 on Internal Erosion of existing dams, levees and dikes and their foundations.

Mark Foster has 30 years of experience in geotechnical and dam engineering, with specialist expertise in dam safety upgrade design, embankment dams and risk assessment. He has conducted independent review of dam safety assessments for existing dams and new dams. He is an active member of the Australian National Committee on Large Dams (ANCOLD) and was on the working group who completed updating of the guidelines on risk assessment for dams. He completed his doctorate in 1999 under the supervision of Professor Fell at UNSW, titled "Methods for Estimating the Probability of failure of Embankment Dams". He is a co-author of the widely referenced book "Geotechnical Engineering of Dams" published by Taylor & Francis.

Gavan Hunter has more than 30 years of experience in geotechnical engineering for a range of water, civil and mining projects. He specialises in geotechnical dam engineering and has been involved with the assessment of performance, investigation, design and construction of upgrades for numerous dam projects in the past 20 years. These projects have covered a broad range of geotechnical engineering application including soft ground engineering, slope stability assessment, risk assessment, foundation design, assessment of performance (deformation, seepage, pore pressure), cut-off wall design, liquefaction assessment, earthworks control, and design and construction advice. Embankment types have included water storage and tailings dams, and range in size from small dams up to very large dams, including some of Australia's most significant dams. For the past 5 years, he has provided independent technical review to water authorities and mining companies on a range of dam projects, mostly in Australia but also internationally. He completed his doctorate in 2003 under the supervision of Professor Robin Fell, titled "Pre and Post Failure Deformation Behaviour of Landslides in Soil Slopes". He represents ANCOLD on the ICOLD Embankment Dams Committee (Committee E).

Chi Fai Wan has over 30 years of post-graduate experience, principally in the field of water and dams engineering. He has specialist skills regarding internal erosion of embankments, having researched aspects of initiation of piping erosion and soil erosion rate. He has published more than thirty technical papers and reports on soil erosion testing, dam design, risk assessment, probabilistic design and analysis, numerical modelling, and internal erosion in dams, and was a guest lecturer in Dams Engineering Courses at the Sydney University and the University of New South Wales. He has worked as a numerical modeller, design engineer, risk analyst, and specialist in internal erosion problems for dam consultants in Australia, Hong Kong, and the USA. He has served as design manager for dam raising and safety upgrade projects, and as technical lead in numerous dam safety reviews using both traditional and risk assessment methods.

羅賓·費爾 (Robin Fell) 擁有58年的大壩工程、地質力學、滑坡和邊坡穩定性經驗，涉及多個國家的廣泛項目。這些工作包括在巴布亞新幾內亞、斐濟、所羅門群島、香港、泰國、坦尚尼亞、新西蘭、加拿大、巴拿馬和美國，以及整個澳大利亞。他專注於堤壩工程、大壩及相關結構的岩土工程，以及大壩和滑坡的風險評估。他參與了超過150座大壩的工作，並對另外100座大壩進行了投資組合風險評估。他在澳大利亞政府的水電項目工作了10年，並在顧問岩土工程師處工作了10年，之後於1985年被任命為新南威爾士大學（UNSW）岩土工程教授。在那裡，他監督了對堤壩內部侵蝕和管道現象的研究，以及大壩和滑坡的風險評估。他在澳大利亞及加拿大、美國、巴拿馬和新西蘭的大壩同行評審小組中擔任顧問。他因在大壩內部侵蝕和管道現象以及大壩和滑坡的風險評估方面的專業知識而在國際上受到認可。他是《大壩的岩土工程》一書的主要作者，該書由泰勒與法朗西斯（Taylor & Francis）出版，並且是ICOLD公報164的作者，該公報關於現有大壩、堤防和堤壩基礎的內部侵蝕。

馬克·福斯特 (Mark Foster) 擁有30年的岩土和大壩工程經驗，專長於大壩安全升級設計、堤壩和風險評估。他對現有大壩和新大壩的安全評估進行了獨立審查。他是澳大利亞大型大壩國家委員會（ANCOLD）的活躍成員，並參與了更新大壩風險評估指導方針的工作小組。他於1999年在新南威爾士大學（UNSW）完成博士學位，指導教授為費爾教授，論文題目為《堤壩失效概率估算方法》。他是廣泛引用的《大壩的岩土工程》一書的共同作者，該書由泰勒與法朗西斯出版。

加文·亨特 (Gavan Hunter) 擁有超過30年的岩土工程經驗，涉及多種水利、土木和礦業項目。他專注於岩土大壩工程，並在過去20年中參與了多個大壩項目的性能評估、調查、設計和升級建設。這些項目涵蓋了廣泛的岩土工程應用，包括軟土工程、邊坡穩定性評估、風險評估、基礎設計、性能評估（變形、滲透、孔隙壓力）、截水牆設計、液化評估、土方控制以及設計和建設建議。堤壩類型包括水庫和尾礦壩，規模從小型大壩到非常大型的大壩，包括一些澳大利亞最重要的大壩。在過去5年中，他為水利機構和礦業公司提供了多個大壩項目的獨立技術審查，主要在澳大利亞，但也包括國際項目。他於2003年在費爾教授的指導下完成博士學位，論文題目為《土坡滑坡的失效前後變形行為》。他代表ANCOLD參加ICOLD堤壩委員會（E委員會）。

溫志輝 (Chi Fai Wan) 擁有超過30年的研究生經驗，主要集中在水利和大壩工程領域。他在堤壩內部侵蝕方面擁有專業技能，研究了管道侵蝕的啟動和土壤侵蝕速率的各個方面。他已發表超過三十篇有關土壤侵蝕測試、大壩設計、風險評估、概率設計與分析、數值建模以及大壩內部侵蝕的技術論文和報告，並曾在悉尼大學和新南威爾士大學的堤壩工程課程中擔任客座講師。他曾擔任數值建模師、設計工程師、風險分析師，以及澳大利亞、香港和美國大壩顧問的內部侵蝕問題專家。他曾擔任大壩加高和安全升級項目的設計經理，並在多個大壩安全審查中擔任技術負責人，使用傳統和風險評估方法。