Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
30 Apr 1981, 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Abstract
It has been observed that actual behavior of Rockfill dams during earthquake is much different than that obtained by elastic analysis. No tension approach has thus been developed to overcome the shortfalls of elastic analysis. Using no tension approach redistribution of stresses are obtained which help in defining the failure pattern of the dam' subjected to a given seismic acceleration or in other words the failure acceleration is obtained for a given dam subjected to earthquake forces. Various dam models having different upstream and downstream slopes are analyzed using finite element technique. The input earthquake motion has been considered as an equivalent static force. Anisotropy of the rockfill material has been considered. The failure acceleration level for various dam models having different upstream and downstream slopes are thus evaluated. The results are compared with those obtained experimentally and show a good agreement.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1981 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
Bhatia, K. G. and Natarajan, R., "No Tension Approach to Define Failure Phenomena for Rockfill Dam Subjected to Earthquake Loading" (1981). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 17.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/01icrageesd/session07/17
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No Tension Approach to Define Failure Phenomena for Rockfill Dam Subjected to Earthquake Loading
St. Louis, Missouri
It has been observed that actual behavior of Rockfill dams during earthquake is much different than that obtained by elastic analysis. No tension approach has thus been developed to overcome the shortfalls of elastic analysis. Using no tension approach redistribution of stresses are obtained which help in defining the failure pattern of the dam' subjected to a given seismic acceleration or in other words the failure acceleration is obtained for a given dam subjected to earthquake forces. Various dam models having different upstream and downstream slopes are analyzed using finite element technique. The input earthquake motion has been considered as an equivalent static force. Anisotropy of the rockfill material has been considered. The failure acceleration level for various dam models having different upstream and downstream slopes are thus evaluated. The results are compared with those obtained experimentally and show a good agreement.
