Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
27 May 2010, 11:20 am - 11:40 am
Abstract
There has been increasingly high intensity of acceleration ever recorded during earthquakes in recent times. In consistence with this trend several characteristics have been unearthed regarding performances of rockfill dams. With due considerations to these, damage features of high rockfill dams during recent earthqukes in Japan and China are briefly introduced herein, together with those previously reported. As an indicator of overall distress to the dams, the crest settlement was taken up and it was shown that the settlement tends to increase up to about 1.5% of the height of the dam with increasing acceleration during earthquakes.
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
Rights
© 2010 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
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Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Ishihara, Kenji, "Performances of Rockfill Dams During Recent Large Earthquakes" (2010). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 5.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/05icrageesd/session11/5
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Performances of Rockfill Dams During Recent Large Earthquakes
San Diego, California
There has been increasingly high intensity of acceleration ever recorded during earthquakes in recent times. In consistence with this trend several characteristics have been unearthed regarding performances of rockfill dams. With due considerations to these, damage features of high rockfill dams during recent earthqukes in Japan and China are briefly introduced herein, together with those previously reported. As an indicator of overall distress to the dams, the crest settlement was taken up and it was shown that the settlement tends to increase up to about 1.5% of the height of the dam with increasing acceleration during earthquakes.
