Date
08 May 1984, 10:15 am - 5:00 pm
Abstract
Two earth and boulder fill dams of height 127.6 m and 72.2 m are major structures of Ramganga River Project. Their foundation rocks are alternations of clayshale and sandrock of Middle Siwaliks. Both have thick core consisting of central zone of crushed clayshale encased by crushed sandrock zones. The clayshale and sandrock available from spillway excavations, just adjacent to these dams, were utilized as dam fill. No major problem except that of seepage control in cut off trench excavation and compaction near abutments, was encountered during construction. Both the dams are well instrumented. Their construction was completed in 1974-75 and the reservoir has nine fillings since then. Observations reveal that phreatic line has not yet been fully established. The stressmeters installed in clay zone of the core of main dam show effective stresses less than half of the overburden effective stresses, thereby indicating arching due to interaction between clay and sand zones of core.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
1st Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1984 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
Lavania, Bhagwat V. K., "Behaviour of Ramganga Dams" (1984). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 3.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/1icchge/1icchge-theme3/3
Behaviour of Ramganga Dams
Two earth and boulder fill dams of height 127.6 m and 72.2 m are major structures of Ramganga River Project. Their foundation rocks are alternations of clayshale and sandrock of Middle Siwaliks. Both have thick core consisting of central zone of crushed clayshale encased by crushed sandrock zones. The clayshale and sandrock available from spillway excavations, just adjacent to these dams, were utilized as dam fill. No major problem except that of seepage control in cut off trench excavation and compaction near abutments, was encountered during construction. Both the dams are well instrumented. Their construction was completed in 1974-75 and the reservoir has nine fillings since then. Observations reveal that phreatic line has not yet been fully established. The stressmeters installed in clay zone of the core of main dam show effective stresses less than half of the overburden effective stresses, thereby indicating arching due to interaction between clay and sand zones of core.
