This book describes the practical aspects necessary to design, manage, monitor,
and assess these hydraulic structures. The approaches, used to develop tools and
methods for assessing performance and safety of dams largely applied for French
cases, has been discussed for aggregating heterogeneous information and expert
knowledge. Field measurements have been applied to the performance and the
safety assessment for two real-life examples of old dams: Zermanice Concrete Dam
and Sance Rockfill Dam in the Czech Republic. The finite element models (FEM),
to simulate the crucial loading and monitoring stages of these dams, indicate
heave, tilting, uneven displacements, and large settlements. Dam safety and risk
management have been performed