Batubesi Dam which is located in Sorowako region in the middle part of Sulawesi island had been designed with seismic coefficient about 0.20g. The region constitutes an active earthquake zone with the recurrence frequency and magnitude of the earthquake are relatively high. The region is located on and active fault zone due to lateral fault movement (strike-slip) of Matano fault, Palukoro fault...

Indonesia is a country that has quite high seismic activity and prone to earthquake hazards, so the construction of embankment dams in needs pay attention stability against collapse due soil mass loads. Jlantah dam located Karanganyar, Central Java. This planned for irrigation 1493 hectares raw water 150 liters/second. study aims determine safety factor (Fs) on Dam body. The method used quantit...

Dams are very important in Ghanas economic development and environmental improvement. Although Ghana dams seismically far from the active zone, accurately analysed should be evaluated since failure could severely impact people flood environment regions economy on a large scale. This paper proposes numerical procedure for static, slope stability, dynamic analysis of Akosombo embankment dam. Nine...

This study analyzes the possible modes of seismic wave for concrete gravity dams and damage occurring in body where two dam sections are taken as a case study. Model (1) is typical section dam, while model (2) provided with specified steps at its base. The design waves included Operational Base Earthquake (OBE), Maximum Design (MDE), Credible (MCE) levels. body-foundation-reservoir water intera...

This paper briefly reviews the development of earthquake resistant design of buildings. The state-of-the-art of seismic design is discussed from the viewpoint of the performance criteria of buildings. These are (a) serviceability from frequent minor-intensity earthquake motions, (b) repairability from an infrequent but major-intensity earthquake motion, and (c) life safety from the maximum poss...

Most of the existing seismic design codes are based on the empirical knowledge accumulated through systematic earthquake damage data collection and their analysis. Required levels of protection and seismic design forces gradually are increased after each series of catastrophic earthquakes particularly in developed countries. Many efforts have been made through experimental and analytical studie...

Dynamic slope stability in open-pit mines still remains a challenging task in the computational mining design. Earthquake and blasting are two significant sources of dynamic loads that can cause many damages to open-pit mines in active seismic areas and during exploitation cycles. In this work, the effects of earthquake and blasting on the stability of the NW slope of Chadormalu mine are compar...

Aims This study evaluated features that differentiate subtypes of major depressive episode (MDE) in the context of substance dependence (SD). Design Secondary data analysis using pooled data from family-based and case–control genetic studies of SD. Setting Community recruitment through academic medical centers. Participants A total of 1929 unrelated subjects with alcohol and/or drug dependence....

Many engineering applications require the calculation of the distribution of the maximum of a number n of indendent, identically distributed (iid) variables. A typical situation is the design of a system for the “n-year demand” when the maximum demands in different years are iid (design of a dam for the n-year flood, design of an offshore platform for the n-year wave, design of a building for t...