Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Seepage Model Experiment of Earth Fill Dam Due to Heavy Rains
In recent years, a lot of small earth fill dams have collapsed by occurring torrential rain. It is considered that rainfall infiltration causes the weakening of the levee, which is accompanied by a complex of failure phenomena such as sliding and seepage, but the main cause of the failure has not yet been identified. In this paper, we conduct the model experiments in a 1G gravity field to verify the failure mechanism of small earth fill dams during rainfall. The model experiments are conducted under the assumption of continuous heavy rainfall on the levee composed of sandy soil. The experiments confirmed the development of intermittent small-scale slip failures associated with the increase of pore water pressure and pressure hydraulic head in the levee and the erosion of the slope due to rainfall. The series of results indicate that the erosive failure of the surface soil due to rapid saturation of the surface soil and the development of intermittent slip failures are the main causes of failure when highly permeable levee soils are subjected to very heavy rainfall in a continuous manner.
Seepage Model Experiment of Earth Fill Dam Due to Heavy Rains
In recent years, a lot of small earth fill dams have collapsed by occurring torrential rain. It is considered that rainfall infiltration causes the weakening of the levee, which is accompanied by a complex of failure phenomena such as sliding and seepage, but the main cause of the failure has not yet been identified. In this paper, we conduct the model experiments in a 1G gravity field to verify the failure mechanism of small earth fill dams during rainfall. The model experiments are conducted under the assumption of continuous heavy rainfall on the levee composed of sandy soil. The experiments confirmed the development of intermittent small-scale slip failures associated with the increase of pore water pressure and pressure hydraulic head in the levee and the erosion of the slope due to rainfall. The series of results indicate that the erosive failure of the surface soil due to rapid saturation of the surface soil and the development of intermittent slip failures are the main causes of failure when highly permeable levee soils are subjected to very heavy rainfall in a continuous manner.
Seepage Model Experiment of Earth Fill Dam Due to Heavy Rains
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Hazarika, Hemanta (Herausgeber:in) / Haigh, Stuart Kenneth (Herausgeber:in) / Chaudhary, Babloo (Herausgeber:in) / Murai, Masanori (Herausgeber:in) / Manandhar, Suman (Herausgeber:in) / Tanaya, Namihiko (Autor:in) / Kuroda, Shuichi (Autor:in) / Kuribayashi, Kentaro (Autor:in) / Hara, Tadashi (Autor:in)
International symposium on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies ; 2023 ; Fukuoka, Japan
29.02.2024
11 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Risk evaluation for earth-fill dams due to heavy rains by response surface method
Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2023
|Risk evaluation and reliability-based design of earth-fill dams for overflow due to heavy rains
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2010
|Seepage and Piping Control of Earth Fill Dam
Springer Verlag | 2022
|Application of temperature simulation for seepage inspection in earth-fill dams
DOAJ | 2013
|