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Seismic behaviour of roller compacted concrete dams under different base treatments
Date
2019-09-09
Author
Gharibdoust, Ali
ALDEMİR, ALPER
Binici, Barış
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The effect of base roughness on the seismic behaviour of roller compacted concrete gravity dams were investigated by pseudo-dynamically testing two 1/75 scaled specimens with smooth and rough base treatments. Both specimens were tested under the effect of three different hazard level earthquakes and also a pushover experiment was conducted to obtain the capacity curve of each specimen. The smooth base specimen exhibited significant sliding under the effect of the maximum credible earthquake motion. In contrast, the rough base specimen had no base sliding response even during the pushover experiment, whereas large body cracks reaching almost the downstream toe of the specimen was the main reason for the loss of lateral strength. The numerical simulation of these two experiments were also conducted by using the sliding response analysis and the finite element method. The base sliding response of the smooth-base specimen was simulated successfully by considering a variable friction coefficient. The finite element results for the rough-base specimen was also promising as far as the base shear and tip displacement estimations were considered. However, the crack propagation estimates were inconclusive due to the severe diffusion of the cracks.
Subject Keywords
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
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Mechanical Engineering
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Ocean Engineering
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Civil and Structural Engineering
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Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
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Building and Construction
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35864
Journal
STRUCTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/15732479.2019.1661500
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Department of Civil Engineering, Article