Upper Gotvand dam is constructed on the Karun River located in the south west of Iran. In this paper, 2D and 3D models of the dam together with the foundation and abutments were constructed and several seepage analyses were carried out. Then the gypsum veins scattered throughout the foundation ground and also the seepage pattern were included in the models, hence the dissolution law of gypsum, ...

The Coralville Reservoir’s capacity is shrinking. Since the dam that created the Reservoir was completed in 1958, approximately 11 percent of the storage basin’s capacity has been lost to silt, said Ron Fournier, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “Construction projects, farming — pretty much any time earth is moved, rain will wash away dirt,” he said. “Then streams fill up with ...

this research intends to develop a method based on the artificial neural network (ann) to predict permanent earthquake-induced deformation of the earth dams and embankments. for this purpose, data sets of observations from 152 published case histories on the performance of the earth dams and embankments, during the past earthquakes, was used. in order to predict earthquake-induced deformation o...

Seismic methods were used to locate an impermeable water barrier (density body), constructed in front of a homogenous earth-fill dam (Prätisbach) in Eastern Styria, Austria. This detention reservoir, built in 1985/86, was constructed of locally mined materials. Key to this structures functionality is its impermeable core located within the upstream toe of the dam and parallel to the dam axis. T...

The current study is designed to analyze theslope stability of Haditha damwhich an earth-fill dam constructed on the Euphrates River in middle-west Iraq. Finite element modeling was used present combined seepage and post-earthquake slope earth dam. maximum water level a steady case considered evaluate seepage. - Three different levels (maximum, normal, minimum) were applied, nine equilibrium li...