Protections 2025 Details

Date: April 29th to May 1st, 2025

Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA

Accommodations: Hotel block reserved at The Atherton Hotel at Oklahoma State University, (405) 744-6835 - use group name “Protections 2025”

Registration: Open now to register!

Schedule: View the preliminary program.

 

Protections 2025 will include a special tour of the U.S. Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service’s, Agroclimate and Hydraulic Engineering Research Unit (AHERU) facility located near Stillwater, Oklahoma.  During the tour AHERU staff will conduct a live breach test of a constructed embankment dam. Attendees will be able to witness the embankment breach test and photograph and video the event.

 

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission Due: Closed
• Authors Acceptance Notified: December 15, 2024
• Extended Abstracts Due: February 28, 2025
• Hotel Block Closed: March 27, 2025
• Registration Closed: March 27, 2025
• Conference: April 29, 2025-May 1, 2025

Published Areas

The tradition of providing an open discussion environment will continue with the 5th International Seminar on Dam Protections against Overtopping and attendees are invited to prepare abstracts and papers that will be published in an online proceedings in one of the following areas:

• Overflowing erosion of embankment dams and fluvial levees.
• Overflowing erosion of concrete dams and spillways.
• Overtopping erosion of sea dikes.
• Protections against overflowing erosion of embankment dams and fluvial levees.
• Overtopping protection systems.
• Overtopping simulators/test facilities.
• Overtopping failure mechanisms.
• Applications and innovative solutions for overtopping protection.
• Case histories of overtopping events.
• Physical modeling techniques and recent studies.
• Numerical modeling methods.