Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
10 Mar 1991, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Abstract
As a result of the shaking from the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989, the concrete lining of an earth embankment suffered cracking at numerous locations on its upstream side and developed in its bed lining, crater-like pot-holes ranging in size up to 10 ft. in diameter. Field investigation and preliminary studies indicated the differential dynamic vibrations of the earth embankment and the concrete lining to be the cause of the cracking, and the liquefaction of the underlying stratum below the bottom of the reservoir to be the cause of the pot-holes formed as a result of the pore pressure bursting through cracks in the lining. This paper presents a summary of the investigation and the related studies.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1991 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
Singh, Sukhmander and Pal, Nick, "Performance of Concrete Faced Earthdam to Loma Prieta Earthquake" (1991). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 10.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/02icrageesd/session12/10
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Performance of Concrete Faced Earthdam to Loma Prieta Earthquake
St. Louis, Missouri
As a result of the shaking from the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989, the concrete lining of an earth embankment suffered cracking at numerous locations on its upstream side and developed in its bed lining, crater-like pot-holes ranging in size up to 10 ft. in diameter. Field investigation and preliminary studies indicated the differential dynamic vibrations of the earth embankment and the concrete lining to be the cause of the cracking, and the liquefaction of the underlying stratum below the bottom of the reservoir to be the cause of the pot-holes formed as a result of the pore pressure bursting through cracks in the lining. This paper presents a summary of the investigation and the related studies.
