DW2025 Best Papers 

The Editors of Dam Engineering journal have published a Special Issue dedicated to the Fifth International DAM WORLD Conference. This edition features the five best technical-scientific papers selected from the conference proceedings. 

BEST TECHNICAL-SCIENTIFIC PAPERS  

• Critical Aspects of using Vibrating Wire Piezometers In Geotechnical Monitoring of Dams: How To Meet Basic Operating Principles of The Devices and Avoid Common Errors that Compromise Monitoring
  Wellerson da Silva Bastos, Marcos de Avila Pimenta Filho, Luiza Fernandes de Almeida, Marina Martins Ferreira, Mauro Pio dos Santos Junior ● Brazil

• LNEC Support to the Design Adaptation of Alto Tâmega Dam Due to the Rock Slide on the Right Bank Slope
  José Muralha, Luís Lamas, António Batista, Juan Mata and Carlos Serra ● Portugal 

• Continuous Ambient Vibration Measurements: Experimental Set up and First Results on an Arch Dam
  Barthelemy Steck, Emmanuel Robbe, Nicolas Humbert ● France

• The Challenges of the Brazilian Electric Energy Regulatory Agency on Mitigate Effects from 2024 Rio Grande do Sul Floods
  Sérgio Leite, Ludimila da Silva, Luiz Rogério Gomes ● Brazil 

• Optimizing Tailings Dam Safety: Integrating Human Factors and Evolving Hazard
  Franco Oboni, Cesar Oboni ● Canada

The Editors of the INFRASTRUCTURES Journal will publish in 2025 one Special Issue with the 10 Best Academic-Scientific Papers from the Proceedings of the Fifth International DAM WORLD Conference.
The Organisers of the DAM WORLD Conference Series acknowledge the partnership with the Editors of the Infrastructures Journal.

BEST ACADEMIC-SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

• A CFD Account of the Mean Flow and Turbulence over a Breached Embankment Dam
      Rui M. L. Ferreira, Nuno M. Martins, Teresa Alvarez, Teresa Viseu ● Portugal

• Stability Analysis of Concrete Dam Foundations Following a Hybrid Discrete Element/Finite Element Approach
  Nuno Monteiro Azevedo, Maria Braga Farinha, Sérgio Oliveira ● Portugal

• Analysis of the Dynamic Characteristics of Trapezoidal CSG Dams Using Seismic Records
  Nario Yasuda, Zengyan Cao, Yuya Kozaki ● Japan

• Dynamic Behaviour of a Concrete Dam: Development of Statistical and Machine Learning Models for Interpretation of Monitoring Data
  Andres Mauricio Guzman Sejas, Sérgio Pereira, Juan Mata, Álvaro Cunha ● Portugal

• In-situ Estimation of Breach Outflow Hydrographs From Fluvial Dike Failures: A Methodology Integrating Real-time Monitoring and Physical Modelling - Portugal
  Ricardo Jónatas, Sílvia Amaral, Rui Aleixo, João Bilé Serra, Rui Ferreira ● Portugal

• Development of the Combined Fish Pass of FRATEL’S DAM using Numerical and Physical Modelling

Jose Falcao de Melo, Lourenço Sassetti Mendes, António Muralha, Pedro Pinto, João Miguel Oliveira, Liliana Benites Carvalho, Pedro Raposo Almeida, Bernardo Quintella, Carlos M. Alexandre, Ana Sofia Rato ● Portugal

• Safety Verification by 3d Dynamic Analysis of A 100-Year-Old Masonry Arch–Gravity Concrete Dam

    Naoki Iwata, Ryoji Kiyota, Hideaki Kawasaki, Masaharu Kurihara ● Japan

• Simplified Analytical Solutions of Free Surface Migration Within Originally Dry, Coarse Grain Sized, Embankment Dam Materials

    Francesco Federico, Chiara Cesali ● Italy

• Evaluating 3-D Effects On Tailings Dam Stability: A Comparative Analysis Using FS3D/2D ratios

   Raul Conceição, Gonçalo Ferreira, João Camões Lourenço Henrique Lopes ● Portugal

• Adaptive Warning Thresholds in Dam Safety Using Kernel Density Estimation

    Nathalia Silva Cancino, Joaquín Irazabal, Fernando Salazar, Juan Mata ● Spain

• Continuous Ambient Vibration Measurements: Experimental Set up and First Results on an Arch Dam
  Barthelemy Steck, Emmanuel Robbe, Nicolas Humbert ● France