Sensitivity Analysis on Rockfill Material Parameters Influencing Crest Displacement of Concrete-Faced Rockfill Dam

콘크리트 표면차수벽형 석괴댐 정상부 변위에 영향을 미치는 입력물성에 대한 민감도분석

  • Ha, Ik-Soo (Korea Institute of Water and Environment, Korea Water Resources Corporation) ;
  • Seo, Min-Woo (Korea Institute of Water and Environment, Korea Water Resources Corporation) ;
  • Shin, Dong-Hoon (Korea Institute of Water and Environment, Korea Water Resources Corporation)
  • 하익수 (한국수자원공사 수자원연구원) ;
  • 서민우 (한국수자원공사 수자원연구원) ;
  • 신동훈 (한국수자원공사 수자원연구원)
  • Published : 2006.03.24

Abstract

In this study, quantitative sensitivity analysis on rockfill material influencing the dam crest displacement of Concrete-Faced Rockfill Dam(CFRD) was carried out. The purpose of this study is to indicate the most important input parameter and to show the quantitative variation of displacement at the crest of CFR type dam with this input parameter. The rockfill material properties for parametric study were obtained from the results of large scale triaxial tests on 34 rockfill materials in the 22 different sites. From the statistical analysis on these data, some statistical characteristics of rockfill material properties such as property range, distribution characteristics, and correlation between the properties were investigated. based on these characteristics, 27 property combinations were constituted by Latin Hypercube sampling method. Dam crest displacements after construction, impounding, and earthquake loading were evaluated by static and dynamic numerical analysis on each combination. From the sensitivity analysis, it was found that the crest displacement of CFR type dam was absolutely affected by the shear modulus of rockfill material and the effect of friction angle of it was negligible. This relative difference of sensitivity was more outstanding in case of crest settlement than in case of crest horizontal displacement. Also, it was found that the settlement and horizontal displacement of dam crest logarithmically decreased as the shear modulus increased and the difference between the maximum value and the minimum vale amounted to about 9.5 times in case of settlement and about 10 times in case of horizontal displacement.

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