**Meet the editor**

Hasan Tosun is a Professor in the Civil Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Osmangazi University, Eskisehir. Dr. Tosun specializes in geotechnics for dam engineering, especially for embankment and rockfill dams and teaches soil mechanics, geotechnics for dam engineering, and engineering geology. Up to 1997, he worked at the General Directorate of

State Hydraulic Works, and supervised the geotechnical studies of large dams constructed in Turkey. He has published over 200 technical papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings, and is the author of four books on soil mechanics and geotechnics for dams. He is the president of the Turkish Society on Dam Safety and a member of the National Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering in Turkey, the USSD in USA, and CDA in Canada.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Overburden Layers 1**

**Loading Test 23**

Oskonbaev

**Case Studies 73** Arash Barjasteh

Chapter 1 **Practices in Constructing High Rockfill Dams on Thick**

Zhongzhi Fu, Shengshui Chen and Enyue Ji

Akira Kobayashi and Akira Murakami

**Lowland Dam Reservoir 39** Aleksandra Ziemińska-Stolarska

Chapter 2 **Seismic Crack Investigation in an Earth Dam by Centrifugal**

Chapter 3 **Three-Dimensional CFD Simulations of Hydrodynamics for the**

Amanbek Jainakov, Abdikerim Kurbanaliev and Maralbek

Chapter 4 **Large-Scale Modeling of Dam Break Induced Flows 59**

Chapter 5 **Influence of Geological Structure on Dam Behavior and**
