DAM FAILURES: https://damsafety.org/dam-failures
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING 101: exposing any non-trivial system to repeated STRAIN, DE-STRAIN, or flexing, will inevitably lead to failure. A DAM wants consistent water quality and volume, with temperature being a secondary but important concern. If these variables, specifically VOLUME, fluctuate too much? – you get sink holes formed, subsidence, and failure.
