Earthquake Analysis of Arch Dams: Factors to Be Considered
- 1 February 2012
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Structural Engineering
- Vol. 138 (2) , 205-214
Abstract
The factors that significantly influence the three-dimensional analysis of arch dams are identified: the semiunbounded size of the reservoir and foundation-rock domains, dam-water interaction, wave absorption at the reservoir boundary, water compressibility, dam–foundation rock interaction, and spatial variations in ground motion at the dam-rock interface. Through a series of example analyses of actual dams, it is demonstrated that (1) by neglecting water compressibility, the stresses may be significantly underestimated for some dams or overestimated for others; (2) by neglecting foundation-rock mass and damping, the stresses may be overestimated by a factor of 2 to 3; and (3) spatial variations in ground motion, typically ignored in dam engineering practice, can have profound influence on the earthquake-induced stresses in the dam. This influence obviously depends on the degree to which ground motion varies spatially along the dam-rock interface. For the same dam, this influence would differ from one ear...Keywords
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