Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
27 May 2010, 4:30 pm - 6:20 pm
Abstract
On 26th January, 2001, the Kachchh region of Gujarat, India faced devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.6 (Mw) popularly known as “Bhuj” earthquake. Various man made facilities including earthen dams faced varying level of damages during the earthquake and one of the major causes of failure is attributed to wide spread liquefaction of foundation soil. In the present study, a typical Rudramata dam sections located in the Kachchh region is considered for the failure analysis using fully coupled nonlinear dynamic numerical code FLAC 5.0 with pore pressure generation capabilities under dynamic loadings. The analysis is performed using the acceleration – time history record of the Bhuj earthquake developed by Iyengar and Raghukanth (2006) involving analytical procedures. The results of the analysis of the dam section indicated that the presence of liquefiable soil beneath the foundation not only caused large deformation but also modified the failure pattern i.e. from slope to a base type failure, the feature which was also observed during field reconnaissance.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
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Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Srivastava, Amit and Babu, G. L. Sivakumar, "Numerical Analysis of Failure of Rudramatha Dam Section During 26th January, 2001, Bhuj Earthquake" (2010). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 24.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/05icrageesd/session04b/24
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Numerical Analysis of Failure of Rudramatha Dam Section During 26th January, 2001, Bhuj Earthquake
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On 26th January, 2001, the Kachchh region of Gujarat, India faced devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.6 (Mw) popularly known as “Bhuj” earthquake. Various man made facilities including earthen dams faced varying level of damages during the earthquake and one of the major causes of failure is attributed to wide spread liquefaction of foundation soil. In the present study, a typical Rudramata dam sections located in the Kachchh region is considered for the failure analysis using fully coupled nonlinear dynamic numerical code FLAC 5.0 with pore pressure generation capabilities under dynamic loadings. The analysis is performed using the acceleration – time history record of the Bhuj earthquake developed by Iyengar and Raghukanth (2006) involving analytical procedures. The results of the analysis of the dam section indicated that the presence of liquefiable soil beneath the foundation not only caused large deformation but also modified the failure pattern i.e. from slope to a base type failure, the feature which was also observed during field reconnaissance.
