• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.295-317
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• 2020

Investigation of the stability of arch dam abutments is one of the most important aspects in the analysis of this type of dams. To this end, the Bakhtiari dam, a doubly curved arch dam having six wedges at each of its abutments, is selected. The seismic safety of dam abutments is studied through time history analysis using the design-based earthquake (DBE) and maximum credible earthquake (MCE) hazard levels. Londe limit equilibrium method is used to calculate the stability of wedges in abutments. The thrust forces are obtained using ABAQUS, and stability of wedges is calculated using the code written within MATLAB. Effects of foundation flexibility, grout curtain performance, vertical component of earthquake, nonlinear behavior of materials, and geometrical nonlinearity on the safety factor of the abutments are scrutinized. The results show that the grout curtain performance is the main affecting factor on the stability of the abutments, while nonlinear behavior of the materials is the least affecting factor amongst others. Also, it is resulted that increasing number of the contraction joints can improve the seismic stability of dam. A cap is observed on the number of joints, above which the safety factor does not change incredibly.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2009년 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.228-230
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• 2009

The moment-of-fluid (MOF) method is a new volume-tracking method that accurately treats evolving material interfaces. Based on the moment data (volume and centroid) for each material, the material interfaces are reconstructed with second-order spatial accuracy in a strictly conservative manner. The MOF method is coupled with a stabilized finite element incompressible Navier-Stokes solver for two fluids, namely water and air. The effectiveness of the MOF method is demonstrated with a free-surface dam-break problem.

• 지질공학
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.19-35
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• 1992

화강편마암을 지반으로 하는 지역의 Fill Dam 코어기초에 3-12m 폭의 단층대와 40여m 폭의 단층파쇄대가 신선한 암반사이에 분포하며, 이들 각각의 암반의 탄성특성은 현저한 차이를 보인다. 평판재하시험 및 시추공내 변형시험 등의 현장 원위치 시험결가 신선한 암반의 변형계수는 $42,000~168,000kg/\textrm{cm}^2$의 범위를 보이나 단층대의 변형계수는 $963~2,204kg/\textrm{cm}^2$, 파쇄대에서는 $1,238~2,098kg/\textrm{cm}^2$의 범위를 나타낸다. 이와 같이 큰 차이의 변형계수값을 갖는 단층대 및 단층파쇄대와 신선한 암반 사이에는 댐 성토 후 부등침하가 예상된다. 따라서 이에 대한 보강을 위하여 증분식 유한요소 프로그램인 FEADAM 84를 이용한 지반과 보강에 따른 변위 등을 검토하였다. 이때 구성된 유한요소망은 지표조사 및 시추조사에서 확인된 불연속면이 기하학적 분포특성을 고려하였다. 유한요소 해석을 통하여 계산된 단층대와 신선한 암반 사이의 보강 전 부등침하량은 약 6cm에 달하며, 콘크리트 치환 보강 후에는 0.5cm 이내로 나타났다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.211-224
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• 2018

In this paper, a predictive method accounting for the scaling effects of rockfill materials in the numerical deformation analysis of rockfill dams is developed. It aims to take into consideration the differences of engineering properties of rockfill materials between in situ and laboratory conditions in the deformation analysis. The developed method is based on the modification of model parameters used in the chosen material model, which is, in this study, an elasto-plastic model with double yield surfaces, i.e., the modified Hardening Soil model. Datasets of experimental tests are collected from previous studies, and a new dataset of the Nam Ngum 2 dam project for investigating the scaling effects of rockfill materials, including particle size, particle gradation and density, is obtained. To quantitatively consider the influence of particle gradation, the coarse-to-fine content (C/F) concept is proposed in this study. The simple relations between the model parameters and particle size, C/F and density are formulated, which enable us to predict the mechanical properties of prototype materials from laboratory tests. Subsequently, a 3D finite element analysis of the Nam Ngum 2 concrete face slab rockfill dam at the end of the construction stage is carried out using two sets of model parameters (1) based on the laboratory tests and (2) in accordance with the proposed method. Comparisons of the computed results with dam monitoring data indicate that the proposed method can provide a simple but effective framework to take account of the scaling effect in dam deformation analysis.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.35-42
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• 2012

균질한 재료로 설계된 댐에서 수직 수평 투수계수가 서로 다를 경우에 이 비등방성 비율이 침투수의 침투면과 신뢰성지수에 어떤 영향을 주는지를 분석하였다. 정상상태에 있는 포화-불포화 침투수 현상을 유한요소법을 사용하여 분석하였다. 수평방향 투수계수를 고정한 상태에서 수직방향 투수계수만을 줄여주는 방법으로 여러가지 다른 비등방성 비율을 해석하였다. 댐제체의 전단강도는 수정된 모어-쿨롱 파괴기준을 사용하여 결정하였다. 해석 결과에 따르면 비등방성 비율이 증가함에 따라 침투면의 거리와 신뢰성지수는 증가하는 것으로 나타났으나 댐 상하류의 전체 수두차에 따라 차이를 보였다. 이러한 침투면과 신뢰성지수의 차이는 비등방성 비율이 변동함에 따라 등가수두선도 변화하는 현상에 의한 것으로 판단된다.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.353-371
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• 2018

The Wavenumber or more accurately Wavenumber-FD approach was initially introduced for two-dimensional dynamic analysis of concrete gravity dam-reservoir systems. The technique was formulated in the context of pure finite element programming in frequency domain. Later on, a variation of the method was proposed which was referred to as Wavenumber-TD approach suitable for time domain type of analysis. Recently, it is also shown that Wavenumber-FD approach may be applied for three-dimensional dynamic analysis of concrete arch dam-reservoir systems. In the present study, application of its variation (i.e., Wavenumber-TD approach) is investigated for three-dimensional problems. The method is initially described. Subsequently, the response of idealized Morrow Point arch dam-reservoir system is obtained by this method and its special cases (i.e., two other well-known absorbing conditions) for time harmonic excitation in stream direction. All results for various considered cases are compared against the exact response for models with different values of normalized reservoir length and reservoir base/sidewalls absorptive conditions.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.647-664
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• 2006

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of transient stochastic analysis on nonlinear response of earth and rock-fill dams to spatially varying ground motion. The dam models are analyzed by a stochastic finite element method based on the equivalent linear method which considers the nonlinear variation of soil shear moduli and damping ratio as a function of shear strain. The spatial variability of ground motion is taken into account with the incoherence, wave-passage and site response effects. Stationary as well as transient stochastic response analyses are performed for the considered dam types. A time dependent frequency response function is used throughout the study for transient stochastic responses. It is observed that stationarity is a reasonable assumption for earth and rock-fill dams to typical durations of strong shaking.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2003년도 춘계 학술발표회논문집
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• pp.232-237
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• 2003

A new displacement-based transmitting boundary is developed for the transient analysis of dynamics interactions between flexible dam body and reservoir impounding compressible water The mechanical model is derived analytically in time domain from the kernel function, Bessel function, appearing in the convolution integral and corresponding mechanical model is developed that consists of mass, damping and stiffness matrices. The resulting system of, equations uses displacement degrees of freedom. Hence it can be coupled directly with the displacement-based solid finite element model of dam body, linear of nonlinear. The method was applied to the rigid and flexible dam models. The results showed very good agreement : with the semi-analytic frequency domain solutions.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.123-132
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• 1999

댐-호소 계의 지진응답해석에 있어서의 어려운 문제 중 하나는 댐 상류방향으로의 에너지 방사를 적절하게 처리하는 것이다 본 논문에서는 깊이가 일정한 호소 원역으로의 에너지 방사를 잘 모델링할 수 있는 전달경계를 제시하였다 개발된 방법에서 수면파의 영향을 고려하였으며 호소-지반의 상호작용을 근사적으로 표현할수 있는 흡수경계조건도 도입하였다 댐과 호소의 경계면이 지표면에 수직하고 호소의 깊이가 일정할 경우에는 제안된 전달경계를 댐체의 모델에 직접 연결할 수 있다 댐체는 선형탄성거동을 가정하여 유한요소로 모델링 하였다 얻어진 댐-호소 계의 운동방정식을 이용하여 댐의 지진응답특성을 조사하였다

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 1999년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집 Proceedings of EESK Conference-Spring
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• pp.267-274
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• 1999

Since the seismic response of dams can be strongly influenced by the dam-reservior interaction in needs to be taken into account in the seismic design of dams. In general a substructure method is employed to solve the dam-reservoir interaction problem in which the dam body is modeled with finite elements and the infinite region of a reservoir using a transmitting boundary. When the water is modeled as a compressible fluid the equation is formulated in frequency domain. But nonlinear behavior of dam body cannot be studied easily in the frequency domain method. In this study time domain formulation of the dam-reservoir-soil interaction is proposed based onthe lumped parameter modeling of the reservoir region, The frequency dependent dynamic-stiffness coefficients of the reservoir are converted into frequency independent lumped-parameters such as masses dampers and springs. The soil-structure interactionis modeled using lumped parameters in similar way. the ground is assumed as a visco-elastic stratum on the rigid bedrock. The dynamic stiffnesses of the rigid surface foundation are calculated using the hyperelement method and are converted into lumped parameters. The application example demonstrated that the lumped parameter model gives almost identical results with the frequency domain formulation.