Webinar: Designing Spillways to Mitigate Failure Modes

This event qualifies for 2 PDHs

This course will present potential failure modes for chute spillways and ways to design these spillways to minimize the potential for failure.

1. Understanding failure modes such as cavitation and hydraulic jacking that can

affect chute spillways.

2. How to evaluate potential spillway design and construction details that could

lead to failure modes.

3. How to evaluate potential spillway failure mode
4. Understanding design details that can help prevent spillway failures.
5. Why we should be concerned with spillway chute failures.

Speaker and Presenter Information

John Trojanowski
President/Trojanowski Dam Engineering, Limited

John Trojanowski has over 40 years of experience related to spillway design and analysis, including 37 years as a dam engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation specializing in waterways and concrete dams. For the past three years he has been an independent consultant, and recently served as a member of the Independent Forensic Team for Oroville Dam spillway failure. He is also member of ASDSO, ASCE, and USSD.

Relevant Government Agencies

Army, DOD & Military, Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Energy, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of the Interior, Other Federal Agencies, State Government, County Government, City Government, Municipal Government, FEMA, Federal Government, State & Local Government, Foreign Governments/Agencies