An Evaluation of Stress-Strain Behaviour of Earth-Rockfill Dam and Causes of Crack due to Water Table Fluctuation

수위변동에 따른 Earth-Rockfill 댐의 거동 및 균열원인에 대한 평가

  • Published : 2001.12.01

Abstract

Longitudinal cracks have occurred on the crest of dams soon after their construction of two earth-rocfill dams located in Samlangjin. They are a pair of pumped storage dams constructed for generation of electrical power. The upper dam and lower dam are subjected to the variation of water level more than 10m once in a day alteratively. This paper deals with the finding of possible causes for longitudinal cracks about upper dam. The dominant cause was considered to be due to fluctuation of water load, for which numerical analysis was carried out using the hyperbolic model. In order to obtain parameters necessary to the analysis, a series of triaxial tests was performed for both core and rock material. Also dynamic triaxial test was performed to obtain dynamic properties of soils, which could be used as input data to simulate frequent variation of stress change due to the water fluctuation. It was known from the numerical analysis that the confining pressure of upper 4m from the top of the crest become negative after repeating of water load, meaning that tension cracks occurred in the top portion of the crest. The depth of longitudinal cracks has been investigated by digging test pit on the crest. This results agree with the field observation.

삼랑진에 위치한 삼랑진양수발전 상.하부댐의 댐마루에 시공 후 종방향 균열이 발생하였다. 이 댐들은 전력을 생산하기 위한 양수발전댐으로 상부댐과 하부댐으로 구성되어 있으며, 매일 10m이상의 수위변화를 받아왔다. 본 논문은 이들 댐중 상부댐에 발생한 종방향 균열의 원인을 찾는데 있다. 균열의 주요 원인은 수위변동으로 인한 것으로 판단되었으며, 이를 검토하기 위해 hyperbolic model을 이용한 수치해석을 수행하였다. 수치해석을 위한 입력자료를 얻기 위해 심벽재료와 사석재료에 대해 일련의 삼축압축시험을 수행하였다. 또한 수위변동으로 인한 주기적인 응력변화를 검토하기 위한 입력자료를 얻기 위해 진동삼축압축시험을 수행하였다. 수치해석결과 반복하중이 작용했을 경우 댐마루에서 깊이 4m까지 구속압력이 음이 되는 것으로 나타났으며, 이로 인해 종방향균열이 발생한 것으로 판단되었다. 이 종방향균열의 깊이는 댐 마루에서 수행한 시험굴에서 확인하였으며, 현장 조사결과와 잘 부합하였다.

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