scholarly journals Construction of decision rules for early detection of a developing concrete arch dam failure scenario. A discriminant approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. 45-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mata ◽  
N. Schclar Leitão ◽  
A. Tavares de Castro ◽  
J. Sá da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Early Detection ◽  
Decision Rules ◽  
Arch Dam ◽  
Dam Failure ◽  
Concrete Arch Dam ◽  
Failure Scenario

scholarly journals Cracking Behavior of a Concrete Arch Dam with Weak Upper Abutment

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Xu ◽  
Shuaizhao Jing ◽  
Jie Liu ◽  
Yefei Huang
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Failure Mode ◽  
Arch Dam ◽  
Dam Failure ◽  
Crack Model ◽  
Cracking Behavior ◽  
Concrete Arch Dam ◽  
Smeared Crack ◽  
Smeared Crack Model

The cracking behavior and failure mode of a 78 m high concrete double-curvature arch dam with weak upper abutment are investigated through performing cracking analysis. The mechanical behavior of concrete is simulated using a smeared crack model, in which a combination of the compression yield surface and the crack detection surface with a damaged elasticity concept is employed to describe the failure of concrete. The arch dam with practical mechanical properties of the upper and lower abutments is firstly studied with emphasis on its cracking behavior during overloading. Then, a comprehensive sensitivity analysis is carried out to investigate the influence of the ratio of the mechanical properties of upper abutment to those of lower abutment on dam failure with prime attention placed on the failure mode. Simulation results indicate the adopted smeared crack model is well-suited to the crack analysis of concrete arch dam. It is shown that cracking is localized around the interface between upper and lower abutments, which leads to a fast crack growth in the through-thickness direction of dam and finally causes the dam failure. Furthermore, the sensitivity analysis presents three types of failure modes corresponding to different ratio value, wherein Modes II and III should be avoided since the weak upper abutment plays a predominant role in the cracking and failure of concrete arch dam.

Vibration-based damage detection of a concrete arch dam

2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 112032
Author(s):  
Sérgio Pereira ◽  
Filipe Magalhães ◽  
Jorge P. Gomes ◽  
Álvaro Cunha ◽  
José V. Lemos
Keyword(s):  
Damage Detection ◽  
Arch Dam ◽  
Concrete Arch Dam

Modal identification of concrete arch dam by fully automated operational modal identification

Structures ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 228-236
Author(s):  
Hasan Mostafaei ◽  
Mehdi Ghamami ◽  
Pegah Aghabozorgi
Keyword(s):  
Arch Dam ◽  
Modal Identification ◽  
Concrete Arch Dam

scholarly journals A study on deformational behavior of concrete arch dam due to solar heat in a day.

1990 ◽  
pp. 229-237
Author(s):  
Hirotomo YOSHIDA ◽  
Tadaaki TANABE ◽  
Hidetaka UMEHARA ◽  
Takumi UEHARA
Keyword(s):  
Arch Dam ◽  
Solar Heat ◽  
Concrete Arch Dam ◽  
Deformational Behavior

Reasonable Strength Criterion Research of High Arch Dam Based on Brittle Failure Constitutive Relation

2014 ◽  
Vol 578-579 ◽  
pp. 964-967
Author(s):  
Zhi Qiang Wang ◽  
Wen Biao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Relation ◽  
Brittle Failure ◽  
Concrete Strength ◽  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
Strength Criterion ◽  
Arch Dam ◽  
Dam Failure ◽  
Dam Safety ◽  
High Arch Dam ◽  
Triaxial Strength

The brittle failure finite element method is widely used in arch dam safety evaluation, but it also has some problems, the concrete strength criterion is different, the dam failure range is different. This article first introduces brittle failure constitutive relation and three strength criterions, then takes a high arch dam as an example to compute, obtains some conclusions that the relative failure range of foundation plane corresponds to blaxial strength criterion is slightly bigger than the result of uniaxial strength criterion, is almost the same as the result of triaxial strength criterion. Because the influence of the third principal stress is compressed stress to the dam crack is taken into account under multiaxial strength criterion, therefore using multiaxial strength criterion is more reasonable.

The Diagnostic Method of Concrete Dam Monitoring Information Valid Interval

2012 ◽  
Vol 226-228 ◽  
pp. 2072-2077
Author(s):  
Dong Qin ◽  
Xue Qin Zheng ◽  
Fa Meng Wang ◽  
He Zhi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Influential Factors ◽  
Arch Dam ◽  
Dynamical Structure ◽  
Concrete Dam ◽  
Concrete Arch Dam ◽  
Structural Mutation ◽  
Mutation Theory ◽  
Dam Monitoring ◽  
Mutation Sequence ◽  
Monitoring Information

On the basis of the analysis of the displacement of concrete dam and its related influential factors, based on the evolvement of nonlinear dynamics of concrete dam, it can effectively identify the mutations position of measured value and the attribute interval of dynamical system applied with the wavelet analysis, dynamic structural mutation theory and other numerical analysis methods. When detecting after separating structural mutation sequence, it can finally get the relative stable displacement time series of dynamical structure, so it can realize the diagnostic separation of the monitoring information effective interval. At the end of the paper, through applying a certain concrete arch dam, it is proved that the proposed method of concrete dam mutations diagnosis of is of great significance for the real-time monitoring of the workability state of a dam.

scholarly journals Investigation of repeatability of digital surface model obtained from point clouds in a concrete arch dam for monitoring of deformations

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kutalmis Gumus ◽  
Halil Erkaya ◽  
Metin Soycan
Keyword(s):  
Water Reservoir ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Deformation Monitoring ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Arch Dam ◽  
Surface Model ◽  
Engineering Structures ◽  
Concrete Arch Dam ◽  
Accuracy Of Measurements ◽  
Laser Scanners

Applicability of Terrestrial Laser Scanners/Scanning (TLS) in deformation measurement in dams is an active area of study. With the advance of modern technology, accuracy of measurements is much improved by developments in design of terrestrial laser scanners. Currently, this technology is used in large and complex engineering structures such as dams. Although TLS is a high cost technology, it is particularly used in monitoring of dam deformations, due to its speed in obtaining thousands of data points, ability to visualize the scanned object and its environment with high accuracy and ability to take long-range measurements. In order to determine the effect of change in water reservoir levels on body of the dam, TLS are used to take deformation measurements in different time intervals, where the water level was at maximum, minimum and medium levels. This paper provides an overview of terrestrial laser scanning technology for deformation monitoring. The concrete arch dam in Antalya Oymapinar, Turkey was used for case study. Four different scannings were performed in this dam in order to verify the replicability of TLS results on same water levels and equivalent conditions. Digital Surface Models reflecting dam surface have been created. Results obtained from surface model differences were examined using surface matching method.

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