GEODYNAMICAL HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH LARGE DAMS

about equally coming from both parts of the continent and its
surrounding neighbourhood, those parts which had been
separated for many -too many - decades for political and
ideological reasons. It makes hope, at the end of a
millennium and at the beginning of a new one in front of us,
that intemational science will now expand without artificial
constraints and will less be concerned with destructive
applications of human intellectual and technical capabilities,
but will concentrate on the real welfare of mankind.
Let me now reflect a little upon what the concern of this
workshop is and which objectives could be envisaged.
IMPACT OF TECTONIC MOTIONS ON LARGE
DAMS
Aleksandar Bozovic
Yugoslavia
Chairman, ICOLD Committee on Seismic Aspects of Dam
Design
CONTENTS
1 ) Introduction
2) Investigation of Faults Activity
3) Predictability of Possible Faults Movements
4) Evaluating the Effebts of Crustal Movements on Dams
5) Effects of Active Tectonic Features on Selection of Dam
Sites and Types of Dams
6) Summary and Conclusions
1) Introduction
The tectonic phenomena active at present are a concern for
dam designers since long time. The main interest in this
respect was directed to seismic shaking and related
consequences for the safety of dams. Very significant
advances were made in this field , both in monitoring
earthquakes and quantifying the input parameters and in
analysing the dynamic response of structures. But the
possibility of surface fault breaking and of areal creep form
of crustal mobility were usually disregarded notwithstanding