<p>Thousands of registered large concrete and embankment dams have now more than five decades of operation and age related problems. Structural safety condition assessment is the main aim of dam monitoring activities and a concern for authorities. Laser scanners ...

<p>More and more old dams are operated for more than 50 years. Evaluation on the life span and the real safety status becomes a challenging task for the dam society, especially for China because of more than 6000 dams to be evaluated and rehabilitated within ...

<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 ...

<p>This manual provides guidance for stability analysis of concrete gravity structures. Stability refers to resistance to sliding and floatation, mimits on the eccentricity of the resultant of the applied loads and limits on the bearing capacity of the foundation ...

This paper, jointly prepared by dam engineers from Japan and the United States, discusses the role of nonlinear dynamic analyses in seismic evaluation problems in these two countries.

<p>The crack in concrete dam body is considered as a typical damage to concrete gravity dams during large earthquakes, and lots of researches on a nonlinear dynamic analysis method considering the occurrence and progress of cracks have been carried out in ...

This paper provides an overview of the US Army Corps of Engineers&rsquo;guidance for seismic design and evaluation of concrete dams, as presented in the Engineer Manual EM1110-2-6053.