On-Site Inspection and Dam Safety Evaluation

Prof. Yan Xiang is currently the Director of Scientific Research Management Department of Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, serves as the vice chairman of the Reservoir Dam and Nuclear Underwater Engineering Technology Professional Committee of the China Diving Salvage Association, the deputy secretary general of the Water Resources Management Professional Committee of the China Hydraulic Engineering Society, and a commissioner of the Intelligent Construction and Management Professional Committee of the China National Committee on Large Dams. He has long been engaged in research on safety diagnosis and risk assessment of water conservancy and hydropower engineering, underwater detection of high dams, intelligent monitoring, and other aspects. As the discipline leader of the Innovation Team for Reservoir Dam Safety and Management of the Ministry of Water Resources, he has led and participated in more than 20 scientific research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation, and the Asian Regional Cooperation Fund, and published over 50 papers and published 7 books, and authorized more than 10 nation invention patents (including 1 international invention patent). He has presided over the completion of more than 60 dam safety evaluations for reservoirs. He has enriched and improved the dam safety management system of "intelligent monitoring, precise diagnosis, risk assessment and intelligent management", and his research results have solved key technological problems such as reservoir dam disease diagnosis and safety monitoring, risk assessment and emergency management, and grading and scrapping decision. He is one of the lead authors of National Sector Standards including Guidelines on dam safety evaluation, Guidelines for reservoir demotion and retirement evaluation, and so on.

Prof. Zhimin Fu is an associate professor at the College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University. She mainly engages in research on dam safety evaluation, formulation of reservoir operation regulations, emergency response plans for flood control and rescue, reservoir dam risk analysis, informatization and intelligent management of water conservancy projects. She has led and participated in multiple scientific research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China " Key technologies and applications of safety diagnosis and smart management of reservoir dams", the National Natural Science Foundation of China's "Research on the Impact of Overextraction of Groundwater on Near Surface Heat Island Effect", the National Natural Science Foundation of China's "Research on the Response of Unsaturated Water Flow and Pollution to Vertical Cracks", and the Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Plan project "Construction of a Benign Operation Management Model for Water Conservancy Engineering in Yunnan Province". She has published over 30 papers, and authorized more than 10 nation invention patents.

Prof. Chengdong Liu works at the Dam Safety Management Department of Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, mainly engaged in research on reservoir dam safety evaluation, safety monitoring and early warning, and informatization and intelligent management of water conservancy projects. He has led and participated in multiple scientific research projects such as the National Key Research and Development Program of China and National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has also led and completed the research on dam safety evaluation, preparatory emergency plans, dam safety monitoring, and information systems for more than 100 large-sized and medium-sized reservoirs, including the Xiaolangdi Hydro-Junction, Danjiangkou Reservoir, Siminghu Reservoir, and Heilongtan Reservoir. He is one of the lead authors of National Sector Standards including Guidelines on dam safety evaluation, Technical specifications for real-time automatic monitoring and early warning system of termites in water conservancy and hydropower projects, and so on. Liu was selected as a top notch talents in the "Kunlun Talent - High-end Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent Project" in Qinghai Province in 2020. He has published over 50 academic papers and published 5 books.

Zhang Kai received his bachelor's degree in water conservancy and hydropower engineering and master's degree in hydrostructural engineering from Hohai University in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He is mainly engaged in scientific research and technical consulting in the field of reservoir dam safety assessment and disease diagnosis and obtained the qualification of engineer in July 2016 and the qualification of senior engineer in April 2021. He is now a registered consulting engineer and a registered consulting expert in Jiangsu Province.

Wang Yakun finished his bachelor's degree in Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering at Kunming University of Science and Technology in 2019, and he got the master's degree in Urban Water Affairs from Hohai University in 2022. Now he is doing the Ph.D. at Sichuan University and Nanjing Institute of Water Resources Science (joint training).

Wang is mainly engaged in the research of dam safety diagnosis and risk assessment, deep water inspection, and structural health monitoring. He has participated in 7 key national research and development projects, National Natural Science Fund, and provincial and ministerial projects and has led and participated in more than 20 dam safety identification projects and more than 10 underwater inspection projects. He has published 6 journals, 9 software copyrights, and 4 invention patents.

Dr Shen received his M.E. degree in water conservancy engineering from Hohai University in 2016 and his Ph.D. degree in water conservancy and hydropower engineering from Sichuan University and Nanjing Institute of Water Resources Science (joint training) in 2020.

Dr Shen is mainly engaged in scientific research in the field of reservoir dam safety diagnosis and risk assessment and management. He has led two projects under the National Key Research and Development Programme and one project under the Central Public Research Institutes' Basic Scientific Research Business Fund and participated in many research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Water Resources' Public Welfare Industry Research Project. He has presided over the completion of more than 10 major water conservancy projects in terms of safety testing, safety diagnosis, risk assessment, and emergency response. He has published more than 10 papers, including 3 SCI papers and 4 EI papers; participated in the editing of 1 monograph; participated in the editing of 2 industry specifications; obtained 11 soft publications; and authorised 3 international invention patents and more than 10 national invention patents.

顏翔教授目前擔任南京水利科學研究院科學研究管理部主任，並擔任中國潛水打撈協會水庫大壩與核潛水工程技術專業委員會副主任、中國水利工程學會水資源管理專業委員會副秘書長，以及中國大壩委員會智能建設與管理專業委員會委員。他長期從事水利水電工程的安全診斷與風險評估、高壩水下探測、智能監測等方面的研究。作為水利部水庫大壩安全與管理創新團隊的學科帶頭人，他主導和參與了20多個科研項目，包括中國國家重點研究與發展計畫、國家自然科學基金和亞洲區域合作基金，發表了50多篇論文，出版了7本書籍，並獲得了10多項國家發明專利（包括1項國際發明專利）。他主持完成了60多個水庫的安全評估。他豐富和完善了「智能監測、精確診斷、風險評估和智能管理」的水壩安全管理體系，其研究成果解決了水庫大壩病害診斷、安全監測、風險評估和應急管理、分級與報廢決策等關鍵技術問題。他是《水壩安全評估指南》、《水庫降級與退役評估指南》等國家行業標準的主要作者之一。

傅志敏教授是河海大學水文與水資源學院的副教授。她主要從事水壩安全評估、水庫運行規則的制定、洪水控制與救援的應急預案、水庫大壩風險分析、水利工程的信息化與智能管理等研究。她主導和參與了多個科研項目，包括中國國家重點研究與發展計畫「水庫大壩安全診斷與智能管理的關鍵技術及應用」、國家自然科學基金的「地下水過度開採對近地表熱島效應的影響研究」、國家自然科學基金的「非飽和水流與污染對垂直裂縫的響應研究」，以及雲南省科技計畫項目「雲南省水利工程良性運行管理模式的建設」。她發表了30多篇論文，並獲得了10多項國家發明專利。

劉承東教授在南京水利科學研究院大壩安全管理部工作，主要從事水庫大壩安全評估、安全監測與預警，以及水利工程的信息化與智能管理等研究。他主導和參與了多個科研項目，如中國國家重點研究與發展計畫和國家自然科學基金。他還主導並完成了對100多個大型和中型水庫的安全評估、應急預案的準備、水壩安全監測和信息系統的研究，包括小浪底水利樞紐、丹江口水庫、四明湖水庫和黑龍潭水庫。他是《水壩安全評估指南》、《水壩安全監測技術》等國家行業標準的主要作者之一。