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<p>This paper discusses some aspects of the seismic behaviour of large homogeneous earth dams. Numerical analyses were carried out using a plane-strain finite difference model of an existing dam that has been calibrated using the monitoring data taken during ...
Reference: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul 2017
<p>We propose a new simplified method for assessing the seismic performance of homogeneous small earth dams (height&le;20 m) founded on bedrock. Dynamic decoupled calculations were performed on seven accelerograms applied to 33 structural and geotechnical ...
Reference: International Symposium Qualification of Dynamic Analyses of Dams and their Equipment and of Probabilistic Assessment of Seismic Hazard in Europe, Saint Malo, FRA, 31/08-2/09/16
<p>Following an overview of pertinent literature, this paper presents a new methodology for estimating seismic coefficients for the performance-based design of earth dams and tall embankments. The methodology is based on statistical regression of (decoupled) ...
Reference: Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 01/2014; 56:57–73. DOI
<p>The Mw=9.0 Tohoku Earthquake resulted in failures of the two dams impounding Fujinuma Lake, in Fukushima Prefecture. After the event, several mechanisms were postulated regarding the failure modes of the dams. The authors have performed numerical dynamic ...
Reference: Geo-Congress 2013
<p>The evolutions of practices of seismic slope stability analysis of earth embankment/dam are discussed in this paper. The basic concepts of various methods, salient features, advantages and limitations of each of them are elucidate. Methods for both stability ...
Reference: International Journal of Recent advances in Mechanical Engineering (IJMECH) Vol.2, No.1, February 2013
The excess pore water pressure developed in the Upper San Fernando Dam during the 1971 San Fernando Earthquake has been evaluated in several studies. Almost all of these studies indicate large excess pore pressure ratios developed only in the upstream and ...
Reference: Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, University of Missouri, May 24-29, 2010, 12 p.
<p>Dynamic crack propagation analysis was used to assess the seismic safety of concrete gravity dams in large-scale earthquakes. Since damping characteristics have been shown to have a major effect on the occurrence and propagation of cracks in dam body, we ...
Reference: The 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering October 12-17, 2008, Beijing, China
New Zealand is located in the area of active seismicity on the boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates. Most dams in New Zealand are in the close proximity to active faults and some dams have been built across active faults. The paper describes ...
Reference: First Turkish Dam Safety Symposium May 2007
The Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority Gandhinagar and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur are happy to present the IITK-GSDMA Guidelines on Seismic Design of Earth Dams and Embankments to the professional engineering community in the country. ...
Reference: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur
<p>On March 2005, the River Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport issued &ldquo;Guidelines for Seismic Performance Evaluation of Dams during Large Earthquakes (Draft).&rdquo; The Draft Guidelines describe the methods for systematically ...
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