The water supply is the crucial problem of human beings in the world. Earth dams are usually the most important structures to store and manage the main sources: surface waters. The safety of earth dams in different conditions especially under earthquake loadings plays a vital role in sustainable developments. Recently, mixed-clay soil is widely used as water- seal material in the core of earth ...

Abstract: The seepage control system of a high Concrete Face Rock-Fill Dam (CFRD) may have anti-seepage deficiencies during both construction and operation. In order to solve these, the three-dimensional Finite Element Method (FEM) model was built based on dam body filling, anti-seepage system, defect location and bedrock distribution. The seepage field simulation and computation were carried o...

#" !$" Snowmelt dominated streamflow of the Western Himalayan rivers is an important water !%" resource during the dry pre-monsoon months to meet the irrigation and hydropower needs !&" in northern India. This study is one of the first to look at the seasonal prediction of melt!'" dominated total inflow into the Bhakra Dam in northern India, based on statistical !(" relationships with meteorolo...

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...

Simplified procedures are commonly employed to estimate seismic displacements of earth and waste fills. The landmark work of Makdisi and Seed (1978) has been widely adopted in practice. Although this work is widely used, it has a number of significant limitations such as decoupling the sliding block analysis from the seismic response analysis, use of a limited number of recorded earthquake moti...

This study aims to assess the net benefit of kaptai dam on Karnafuli river in Kaptai, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Kaptai Dam, only hydroelectricity power source Bangladesh, provides 5% electricity demand The Dam is located River at Rangamati District, 65 km upstream from Chittagong. It an earth-fill or embankment with a reservoir water storage capacity 11,000 skm. Though Dam's primary purpose gener...