Earth dams, dikes, and levees are engineered barriers designed to control or retain surface water, either for storing water (for water supply or hydropower) or, even more critically, for flood prevention. Read the e-book to learn how you can increase reliability with both limit equilibrium and finite element shear-strength reduction methods.

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