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Quantitative failure metric for gravity dams
Quantitative failure monitoring is a critical tool for safety assessment of concrete dams. This includes damage occurrence, intensity, location, number, size, and propagation pattern. Such an assessment is essential for a quantifiable prioritization of repair and will thus reduce overall cost and improve safety. This paper will address this timely topic through the nonlinear transient analysis of a dam and failure will be ascertained through a multi-scale damage index. A damage-plastic model for mass concrete is used, Drucker-Prager elasto-plastic one for the foundation, and infinite elements are used for far-field boundaries. Water-dam interaction is accounted for through fluid finite elements. It is determined that the proposed damage indices can indeed provide a quantitative metric for the degree of failure in gravity dams in terms of the input dynamic motion.
Quantitative failure metric for gravity dams
Quantitative failure monitoring is a critical tool for safety assessment of concrete dams. This includes damage occurrence, intensity, location, number, size, and propagation pattern. Such an assessment is essential for a quantifiable prioritization of repair and will thus reduce overall cost and improve safety. This paper will address this timely topic through the nonlinear transient analysis of a dam and failure will be ascertained through a multi-scale damage index. A damage-plastic model for mass concrete is used, Drucker-Prager elasto-plastic one for the foundation, and infinite elements are used for far-field boundaries. Water-dam interaction is accounted for through fluid finite elements. It is determined that the proposed damage indices can indeed provide a quantitative metric for the degree of failure in gravity dams in terms of the input dynamic motion.
Quantitative failure metric for gravity dams
Hariri-Ardebili, M.A. (author) / Saouma, V. (author)
Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics ; 44 ; 461-480
2015
20 Seiten
Article (Journal)
English
Quantitative failure metric for gravity dams
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