Safety aspects of spillway gates

  • J. Lewin
  • Vol. 16 - Issue 2, 2009

The paper discusses some principles which can be applied to increase the safety of spillway gates, and deals in more detail with two of these: ‘fail safe’ design and common cause failure.

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