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Significance of rigorous fluid-foundation interaction in dynamic analysis of concrete gravity dams

  • Lotfi, Vahid
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.137-150
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    • 2005
  • Dynamic analysis of dam-reservoir-foundation system is usually carried out by employing a simplified and approximate one-dimensional model to account for fluid-foundation interaction. The approximation introduced on this basis is examined thoroughly in this paper by comparing the method with the rigorous approach. It is concluded that the errors due to approximate method could be very significant both for horizontal and vertical ground motions.

Analysis of distortion effect of resistivity data due to 3D geometry of fill dam (필댐의 3차원 기하 효과에 따른 전기비저항 왜곡 효과 분석)

  • Oh Seokhoon;Kim Hyoung-Soo
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.55-58
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    • 2005
  • Low resistivity zone is observed at the lower part of a CFRD (Concrete Face Rockfill Dam). Generally, CFRD tends not to have any saturated zone within the body, but the result of resistivity survey shows that it is possible for the dam to be saturated under 20m depth with water. The level of reservoir was under 10m from the crest. We suspect that this result may come from the wrong 2D inversion process ignoring the 3D geometry of dams. For the analysis of possibility of distortion by different geometry, we perform the 3D forward modeling for the dam and apply the 2D inversion process. And then we check the point of traditional interpretation of resistivity data. By the analysis, it is found that the result of 2D inversion process of 3D geometry of dams, seems to have deep relation with the reservoir level, and the complex 3D structure hide some internal electrical anomaly of dams from resistivity information.

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Analysis of Distortion Effect of Resistivity Data Due to 3D Geometry of Fill Dam (필댐의 3차원 기하 효과에 따른 전기비저항 왜곡 효과 분석)

  • Oh, Seok-Hoon;Kim, Hyoung-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.211-214
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    • 2005
  • Low resistivity zone is observed at the lower part of a CFRD (Concrete Face Rockfill Dam). Generally, CFRD tends not to have any saturated zone within the body, but the result of resistivity survey shows that it is possible for the dam to be saturated under 20m depth with water. The level of reservoir was under 10 m from the crest. We suspect that this result may come from the wrong 2D inversion process ignoring the 3D geometry of dams. For the analysis of possibility of distortion by different geometry, we perform the 3D forward modeling for the dam and apply the 2D inversion process. And then we check the point of traditional interpretation of resistivity data. By the analysis, it is found that the result of 2D inversion process of 3D geometry of dams, seems to have deep relation with the reservoir level, and the complex 3D structure hide some internal electrical anomaly of dams from resistivity information.

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Comparative Analysis on Seasonal Water Quality Factors in Multipurpose Dams and Agricultural Reservoirs (농업용저수지와 다목적댐의 계절별 수질인자의 특성 비교분석)

  • Kim, Eungseok;Sim, Kuybum;Kim, Taeseung;Jeong, Donghwan;Yoon, Johee;Kang, Dookee;Kim, Sangdan
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.102-108
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    • 2012
  • This study has performed comparative analysis on characteristics of reservoirs in their use through correlation analysis on seasonal variation of water quality factors in agricultural reservoirs and multipurpose dams. Agricultural reservoirs show the high relationship between Chl-a and other water quality factors while the correlation among COD, BOD, and SS is strong in multipurpose dams. Agricultural reservoirs have the high relationship between various water quality factors in season such as Chl-a and pH ($R^{2}=0.294$) in Spring, pH and water temperature ($R^{2}=0.246$) in Summer, and Chl-a and BOD ($R^{2}=0.435$) in Fall, and between COD and BOD ($R^{2}=0.370$) in Winter, respectively, for Sapgyo reservoir while Chl-a and T-P ($R^{2}=0.739$) in Spring, T-P and SS ($R^{2}=0.876$) in Summer, and Chl-a and SS ($R^{2}=0.600$) in Fall, and between COD and SS ($R^{2}=0.998$) in Winter, respectively, for Seokmun reservoir. Boryeong dam has the strong relationship between T-P and SS ($R^{2}=0.511$) in Spring while the relation between COD and SS is high in other seasons with the values of $R^{2}$ of 0.362, 0.665, and 0.500 in Summer, Fall, and winter, respectively. The first and second water quality factors in relationship are COD and BOD in Sapgyo and Seokmun reservoirs, which is similar to the characteristics in Winter for multipurpose dams. Chl-a has no relationship with other water quality factors in Boryeong dam in operation for both flood control and low water regulation purposes. The result of this research is expected to provide contributions to the seasonal water quality control and analysis on characteristics for each reservoir by monitoring.

Seismic Response Analysis of Dam-Reservoir System Using Hybrid Method (Hybrid 방법에 의한 댐-호소수 계 지진응답해석)

  • 김재관
    • Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1998.04a
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    • pp.163-170
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    • 1998
  • The influence of the dam-reservoir interaction on the seismic response of dams is studied. The impounded water is assumed to be inviscid and compressible ideal fluid. Material damping is introduce to simulate the energy loss of wave propagation in the water. The irregular region of the impounded water adjacent to the dam is modeled by boundary element method. The regular region extending to infinity is modeled by the transmitting boundary. The dam body is assumed to behave elastically and modeled by finite element method. The coupled equation of motion is obtained by substructure method.

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Safety Management Improving Way of Small Agricultural Reservoir (소규모 농업용 저수지의 안전관리 개선 방향)

  • Shin, Eun-Chul;Lee, Jong-Keun
    • Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.53-58
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    • 2012
  • There are about 17,531 agricultural small dams and reservoirs in Korea. Ninety five percent of the small dams were constructed by earthfill and they were suffered severe damages or expected to repairs or rehabilitation. Therefore dams are evaluated and are identified their problems. Small Dams should be repaired before too late. Small dam safety evaluation is required to guarantee the proper functions of the existing agricultural dams and reservoirs in time and to minimize the damage.

Investigation of water length effects on the modal behavior of a prototype arch dam using operational and analytical modal analyses

  • Sevim, Baris;Bayraktar, Alemdar;Altunisik, Ahmet Can
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.37 no.6
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    • pp.593-615
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    • 2011
  • This study determines the water length effects on the modal behavior of a prototype arch dam using Operational and Analytical Modal Analyses. Achievement of this purpose involves construction of a prototype arch dam-reservoir-foundation model under laboratory conditions. In the model, reservoir length was taken to be as much as three times the dam height. To determine the experimental dynamic characteristics of the arch dam using Operational Modal Analysis, ambient vibration tests were implemented for empty reservoir and three different reservoir water lengths. In the ambient vibration tests, the dam was vibrated by natural excitations provided from small impact effects and the response signals were measured using sensitive accelerometers. Operational Modal Analysis software process signals collected from the ambient vibration tests, and Enhanced Frequency Domain Decomposition and Stochastic Subspace Identification techniques estimated modal parameters of the dams. To validate the experimental results, 3D finite element model of the prototype arch dam was modeled by ANSYS software for empty reservoir and three different reservoir water lengths, and dynamic characteristics of each model were determined analytically. At the end of the study, experimentally and analytically identified dynamic characteristics compared to each other. Also, changes on the natural frequencies along to water length are plotted as graphs. Results suggest that reservoir water complicates the modal behavior of the arch dam significantly.

Simulation of Reservoir Sediment Deposition in Low-head Dams using Artificial Neural Networks

  • Idrees, Muhammad Bilal;Sattar, Muhammad Nouman;Lee, Jin-Young;Kim, Tae-Woong
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.159-159
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    • 2019
  • In this study, the simulation of sediment deposition at Sangju weir reservoir, South Korea, was carried out using artificial neural networks. The ANNs have typically been used in water resources engineering problems for their robustness and high degree of accuracy. Three basic variables namely turbid water inflow, outflow, and water stage have been used as input variables. It was found that ANNs were able to establish valid relationship between input variables and target variable of sedimentation. The R value was 0.9806, 0.9091, and 0.8758 for training, validation, and testing phase respectively. Comparative analysis was also performed to find optimum structure of ANN for sediment deposition prediction. 3-14-1 network architecture using BR algorithm outperformed all other combinations. It was concluded that ANN possess mapping capabilities for complex, non-linear phenomenon of reservoir sedimentation.

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Direct frequency domain analysis of concrete arch dams based on FE-BE procedure

  • Lotfi, Vahid
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.363-376
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    • 2007
  • A FE-BE procedure is presented for dynamic analysis of concrete arch dams. In this technique, dam body is discretized by finite elements, while foundation rock is handled by three dimensional boundary element formulation. This would allow a rigorous inclusion of dam-foundation rock interaction, with no limitations imposed on geometry of canyon shape. Based on this method, a previously developed program is modified, and the response of Morrow Point arch dam is studied for various ratios of foundation rock to dam concrete elastic moduli under an empty reservoir condition. Furthermore, the effects of canyon shape on response of dam, is also discussed.

Characteristics of Abutment Slopes of Four Dams in Korea (우리나라 주요 댐 좌우안 사면의 특징)

  • 신동훈;이종욱
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2000.11b
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    • pp.183-195
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    • 2000
  • Slopes near a dam body can be categorized into 4 groups, such as right and left abutment slopes, reservoir slopes, slopes along the access road and slopes along the relocated road. For each of the geological investigation, the design standards, the evaluation methods of safety and the maintenance methods, both abutment slopes in the four dams have different characteristics from the conventional cut slopes in that they can severely affect the dam safety. From this point of view this study compares and analyzes the geological investigation methods, the status of design and construction, evaluation method of safety, and monitoring & maintaining methods for four major dams in Korea, such as Soyanggang dam, 'Andong dam, Chungju dam and Boryong dam.

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