Guidelines, approaches, and rating systems are the main sources
of information for engineers that are helpful in understanding the
main risk concepts, rules, and procedures for dam risk assessment.
However, they do not provide specifics on what information is
needed to execute the steps for each failure mode analysis, and
rather have suggestions and guided information to provide the
background on the things that should be considered when doing
a risk assessment. The authors have used these guidelines in
identifying the main categories of concepts to be further elaborated