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New explicit formulas for optimum design of concrete gravity dams

  • Habibi, Alireza (Department of Civil Engineering, Shahed University) ;
  • Zarei, Sajad (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kurdistan) ;
  • Khaledy, Nima (Department of Civil Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University)
  • Received : 2019.04.11
  • Accepted : 2021.01.11
  • Published : 2021.02.25
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Abstract

Large dams are a part of the infrastructure of any society, and a huge amount of resources are consumed to build them. Among the various types of dams, the optimum design of concrete gravity dams requires special attention because these types of dams require a huge amount of concrete for their construction. On the other hand, concrete gravity dams are among the structures whose design, regarding the acting forces, geometric parameters, and resistance and stability criteria, has some complexities. In the present study, an optimization methodology is proposed based on Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP), and a computer program is developed to perform optimization of concrete gravity dams. The optimum results for 45 concrete gravity dams are studied and regression analyses are performed to obtain some explicit formulas for optimization of the gravity dams. The optimization of concrete gravity dams can be provided easily using the developed formulas, without the need to perform any more optimization process.

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