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Static Behaviour of Earth — Rockfill Dams

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Advances in Rockfill Structures

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Fill dams (or embankment dams) were the first dams built by man, they are the most numerous and the most frequently chosen when it is a question of constructing a new dam. According to Penman (1986), in 1985 statistics showed that over 80% of the large dams (higher than 15 m) constructed in the world were earth dams. Nowadays that figure is certainly higher. And it must be added that the highest dams in the world are also fill dams.

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das Neves, E.M. (1991). Static Behaviour of Earth — Rockfill Dams. In: das Neves, E.M. (eds) Advances in Rockfill Structures. NATO ASI Series, vol 200. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3206-0_14

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