In January 2006 the French Committee on Dams and Reservoirs – FrCOLD issued provisional guidelines for structural safety of gravity dams. It was the first attempt to produce a semi-probabilistic limit-state method for the design of hydraulic works, in a format similar to the Eurocodes. After 5 years of a progressive implementation of those guidelines, FrCOLD decided to produce an upgraded and e...

A reliability-based design for the improvement of earth-fill dams is created in this study, and the effect of the improvement of the embankment is evaluated for the safety of the embankment against earthquakes. An inclined core is considered here as the means of improvement for the earth-fill embankment. To evaluate the stability of earth-fill dams, the elasto-viscoplastic finite element method...

Abstract : Way Sekampung Dam is built to optimize the utilization of watershed. It classified as an embankment dam with upright core which following a high risk failure. The research slope stability become effort fulfill safety. This study based on effects seepage and seismicity. review focused what safety against potential piping, while for seismicity it carried out under earthquake loading us...

Abstract In the present study, using instrumentation data regarding vertical and horizontal displacement of dam have been analyzed. Also, largest most critical section Marvak earth is modeled with behavioral model Mohr–Coulomb by GeoStudio software. Numerical modeling has done considering actual embankment conditions to analyze changes immediate settlement during construction consolidation just...

The number of constructed dams has been largely increased due to high demands of water supplies, and earth dams are the most common types since they are more compatible to the environment. Nevertheless, the stability of these important structures during earthquakes has to be carefully evaluated and guaranteed. In the past, earth dams usually designed with pure clay core, but in recent decades t...

Large dams, especially concrete dams, have been designed against earthquakes since the construction of Hoover dam in the 1930s. The design criteria and methods of analysis used in those times are outdated today and the actual seismic safety of these structures is not known in view of today’s requirements. Earthquake action was usually taken into account pseudostatically, through an inertia forc...