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Pengfei Qu, Junrui Chai and Zengguang Xu
Concrete-face rockfill dams have gradually become the preferred dam type in the engineering community. This study presents a hydropower station in China as a case study to introduce a new type of embedded concrete-face rockfill dam. The static and dynami...
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Wei Zhao, Zilong Wang, Haiyang Zhang and Ting Wang
The deformation of concrete-face rockfill dams (CFRDs) is a key parameter for the safety control of reservoir and dam systems. Rapid and accurate estimation of the deformation characteristics of CFRDs is a top priority. To realize this, we proposed a new...
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Jinsheng Jia, Lianying Ding, Yangfeng Wu, Chun Zhao and Lei Zhao
In order to safely and efficiently use soft rock aggregate cemented dams in red bed regions and promote the development of widely sourced cemented sand and gravel dam materials, the Jinjigou project in China applied soft rock for the first time in the co...
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Ricardo Monteiro-Alves, Rafael Moran, Miguel Á. Toledo and Javier Peraita
This article presents experimental research focusing on the structural failure of the central core of a rockfill dam using sand-bentonite mixtures. It comprised an extensive geotechnical characterization of soil materials and mixtures, including compacti...
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Rajeev Das and Azzedine Soulaimani
The parameters of the constitutive models used in the design of rockfill dams are associated with a high degree of uncertainty. This occurs because rockfill dams are comprised of numerous zones, each with different soil materials, and it is not feasible ...
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Hao Gu and Kang Liu
Contact problems are widely encountered in geotechnical engineering, such as the contact between soils and concrete used in earth and rockfill dams, tunnels and coastal levees. Due to the unknown contact region and contact forces, the contact problems ha...
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Ki-Chun Park, Van-Quang Nguyen, Jung-Hyun Kim, Duhee Park and Byoung-Han Choi
The settlement at the dam crest induced by earthquake loading is an important design parameter widely used to evaluate the seismic performance of dams. Two-dimensional nonlinear dynamic analyses were performed to calculate the dam crest settlement of ear...
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