Location
New York, New York
Date
15 Apr 2004, 1:00pm - 2:45pm
Abstract
Zipingpu concrete faced rockfill dam is located at upstream of Min River in Yangtze River drainage basin. It is the main body of Zipingpu hinge who governs irrigating, water supplying, generating electricity, preventing flood and so on. The dam is 156 meters high and 663.8 meters long. And the normal water level is 148 meters high. Investigations indicate the peak ground accelerations is 0.26g and the characteristic period of the ground is 0.17 second. Three-dimensional seismic response analysis was carried out for this dam. Improved equivalent visco-elastic model was adopted in FEM analysis. And the method of equal node force was used in residual deformation analysis. In the analysis, the foundation was supposed to be a rigid body. Time histories of the response accelerations, stresses and displacements as well as their distributions were obtained. The residual deformation induced by the input earthquake excitation was also evaluated. The analysis is of much benefit to understanding of the performance of the dam to a strong earthquake.
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
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Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Luo, Gang and Zhang, Jian-Min, "3-D Seismic Response Analysis for Zipingpu Concrete Faced Rockfill Dam" (2004). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 7.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/5icchge/session02/7
3-D Seismic Response Analysis for Zipingpu Concrete Faced Rockfill Dam
New York, New York
Zipingpu concrete faced rockfill dam is located at upstream of Min River in Yangtze River drainage basin. It is the main body of Zipingpu hinge who governs irrigating, water supplying, generating electricity, preventing flood and so on. The dam is 156 meters high and 663.8 meters long. And the normal water level is 148 meters high. Investigations indicate the peak ground accelerations is 0.26g and the characteristic period of the ground is 0.17 second. Three-dimensional seismic response analysis was carried out for this dam. Improved equivalent visco-elastic model was adopted in FEM analysis. And the method of equal node force was used in residual deformation analysis. In the analysis, the foundation was supposed to be a rigid body. Time histories of the response accelerations, stresses and displacements as well as their distributions were obtained. The residual deformation induced by the input earthquake excitation was also evaluated. The analysis is of much benefit to understanding of the performance of the dam to a strong earthquake.
