Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
28 May 2010, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Abstract
The excess pore water pressure developed in the Upper San Fernando Dam during the 1971 San Fernando Earthquake has been evaluated in several studies. Almost all of these studies indicate large excess pore pressure ratios developed only in the upstream and downstream shells which are not consistent with the limited deformation of the dam and the piezometer responses during the earthquake. In this paper, the construction and field observations of the behavior of the Upper San Fernando Dam are reviewed and a simple approach involving Newmark’s (1965) and Makdisi-Seed’s (1978) permanent deformation and limit equilibrium slope stability analyses are used to estimate the excess pore water pressures developed in the core and downstream shell areas during the earthquake for comparison with field measurements. The major differences of this analysis with previous studies lies in the assumptions regarding the selection of the failure plane, liquefiable zones, and mobilized shear strengths. The results explain the field piezometric observations and the limited displacement of the dam.
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
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Sadrekarimi, Abouzar and Stark, Timothy D., "Earthquake Induced Excess Pore Water Pressures in the Upper San Fernando Dam During the 1971 San Fernando Earthquake" (2010). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 1.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/05icrageesd/session07b/1
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Earthquake Induced Excess Pore Water Pressures in the Upper San Fernando Dam During the 1971 San Fernando Earthquake
San Diego, California
The excess pore water pressure developed in the Upper San Fernando Dam during the 1971 San Fernando Earthquake has been evaluated in several studies. Almost all of these studies indicate large excess pore pressure ratios developed only in the upstream and downstream shells which are not consistent with the limited deformation of the dam and the piezometer responses during the earthquake. In this paper, the construction and field observations of the behavior of the Upper San Fernando Dam are reviewed and a simple approach involving Newmark’s (1965) and Makdisi-Seed’s (1978) permanent deformation and limit equilibrium slope stability analyses are used to estimate the excess pore water pressures developed in the core and downstream shell areas during the earthquake for comparison with field measurements. The major differences of this analysis with previous studies lies in the assumptions regarding the selection of the failure plane, liquefiable zones, and mobilized shear strengths. The results explain the field piezometric observations and the limited displacement of the dam.
