Location
New York, New York
Date
15 Apr 2004, 1:00pm - 2:45pm
Abstract
Karkheh dam cut-off wall with an area of about 150000 m2 is the largest plastic concrete cut-off wall ever built in the world. The wall was designed on the basis of seepage and material behavior analysis. The design and construction of the wall was a great challenge in which in different stages, major design modifications were made based on existing construction facilities, updated geological conditions and cost optimization. The philosophy of “design as you go” was tried to be perfectly accomplished in this project. The cut-off wall connections to the dam body and other appurtenant structures such as power tunnels; diversion culvert and spillway were designed and constructed to provide a tight and deformable interface. In this paper, the analysis results are briefly described. The technical specification of execution and material is also summarized.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
5th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2004 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Shadravan, Behnam; Mirghasemi, Ali Asghar; and Pakzad, Mehdi, "Karkheh Storage Dam Cutoff Wall Analysis and Design" (2004). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 40.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/5icchge/session02/40
Karkheh Storage Dam Cutoff Wall Analysis and Design
New York, New York
Karkheh dam cut-off wall with an area of about 150000 m2 is the largest plastic concrete cut-off wall ever built in the world. The wall was designed on the basis of seepage and material behavior analysis. The design and construction of the wall was a great challenge in which in different stages, major design modifications were made based on existing construction facilities, updated geological conditions and cost optimization. The philosophy of “design as you go” was tried to be perfectly accomplished in this project. The cut-off wall connections to the dam body and other appurtenant structures such as power tunnels; diversion culvert and spillway were designed and constructed to provide a tight and deformable interface. In this paper, the analysis results are briefly described. The technical specification of execution and material is also summarized.
