Advanced Information Modeling and Visualization for Dam Risk Assessment

The objective of this project is to identify information and visualization requirements of various engineers involved in risk assessment of dams to support their decision making with ease of access to the necessary data and with flexibility in generating views from such data for understanding the dam behavior over time. The project aims at developing an integrated information model that contains such data and enables generation of views for engineers based on the engineering domain you are looking at the risk.


  • Gulgec, N., Ergan, S., Akinci, B., and Kelly, C. (2015). “Integrated Information Repository for Risk Assessment of Embankment Dams: Requirements Identification for Evaluating the Risk of Internal Erosion.” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000509 , 04015038.

  • Kasireddy, V., Ergan, S., and Akinci, B., Gulgec, N. (2015). “Visualization requirements of engineers for risk assessment of embankment dams”, Visualization in Engineering 2015, 3:1 (16 January 2015). http://www.viejournal.com/content/3/1/1.

  • Jung, I., Frazier, J., Akinci, B., Berges, M., Ergan, S., Garrett, J., and Kelly, C. (2013). “Towards dam information modeling: best practices learned from the AEC/FM domain”, Proceedings of International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD), August 12-16, 2013, Seattle, Washington, USA, pp. 1251-1260.

  • Kasireddy, V., Ergan, S., and Akinci, B. (2014). “Visualization requirements of engineers for risk assessment of embankment dams”, Accepted for publication in Proceedings of International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), July 09-11, 2014, Sydney, Australia, pp. 746-753. http://www.iaarc.org/publications/fulltext/isarc2014_submission_116.pdf.