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Compaction Management Criteria for Fill Materials of Concrete Faced Rockfill Dam (CFRD 축조재료의 다짐관리 기준)

  • Kim, Yong-Seong;Park, Han-Gyu;Lim, Heui-Dae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.343-348
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    • 2005
  • In this study, construction modulus, void ratio and settlement characteristics of 38 CFRD in domestic and foreign countries was investigated from monitoring data and the effect of field dry density and void ratio to dam body was analyzed. The standard void ratio of CFRD that can be easily used for dam designer and field engineer was proposed from the monitoring data. It was conformed that we can get the degree of compaction needed for reasonable compaction of dam body by calculating the field dry density from inverse operation of the standard void ratio. It was thought that the standard void ratio of CFRD is 0.2 as shape factor is under 4 and is 0.28 as shape factor is over 4.

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Behavior of Dams during the 1995 Hyogoken-Nambu Earthquake and Earthquake Resistance of Dams

  • Yamaguchi, Yoshikazu
    • Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1999.10a
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    • pp.3-14
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    • 1999
  • The Hyogoken-Nambu Earthquake of January 17, 1995 inflicted severe damage in the Hanshin and Awaji areas such as has never been seen in Japan in recent years. The safety inspections of the dams conducted in the area by site offices and dam experts immediately after the earthquake showed that there was no damage affecting the safety of the dams although slight damage was observed in several dams. The investigation also revealed that the peak accelerations at dam sites were much smaller than those at soil sites. The Ministry of construction organized the Committee on Evaluattion of Earthquake Resistance of Dams after the earthquake. The Committee confirmed through dynamic analysis that the dams designed in accordance with the present design criteria in Japan are safe under the magnitude of shaking that occurred close the source fault of the Hyogoken-Nambu Earthquake.

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Seismic fragility analysis of a cemented Sand-gravel dam considering two failure modes

  • Mahmoodi, Khadije;Noorzad, Ali;Mahboubi, Ahmad
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.483-495
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    • 2020
  • Dams are vital infrastructures that are expected to maintain their stability during seismic excitations. Accordingly, cemented material dams are an emerging type, which are being increasingly used around the world owing to benefiting from advantages of both earth-fill and concrete gravity dams, which should be designed safely when subjected to strong ground motion. In the present paper, the seismic performance of a cemented sand and gravel (CSG) dam is assessed using incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) method by accounting for two failure modes of tension cracking and base joint sliding considering the dam-reservoir-foundation interactions. To take the seismic uncertainties into account, the dam is analyzed under a suite of ground motion records and then, the effect of friction angle for base sliding as well as deformability of the foundation are investigated on the response of dam. To carry out the analyses, the Cindere dam in Turkey is selected as a case study, and various limit states corresponding to seismic performance levels of the dam are determined aiming to estimate the seismic fragilities. Based on the results, sliding of the Cindere dam could be serious under the maximum credible earthquake (MCE). Besides, dam faces are mostly to be cracked under such level of intensity. Moreover, the results indicate that as friction angle increases, probability of sliding between dam and foundation is reduced whereas, increases tensile cracking. Lastly, it is observed that foundation stiffening increases the probability of dam sliding but, reduces the tensile damage in the dam body.

Assessing the Stability of Fill Dams by Relationship between Water Level and Porewater Pressure (저수위-간극수압의 상관관계를 통한 필댐 안정성 평가)

  • Kang, Gichun;Kim, Donghwan;Yoon, Sukmin;Jang, Bong Seok;Kim, Jiseong
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.36 no.6
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    • pp.5-15
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    • 2020
  • This study deals with the use of porewater pressure transducers to evaluate the stability of a fill dam through the correlation between the porewater pressure and water level. As a result of performing principal component analysis on a total of eight porewater pressure transducers installed in the fill dam, they were distributed into three groups. It was found to be distributed as internal, external, and top based on seepage line in the dam body. The correlation coefficient between porewater pressures and water level in group A located inside the seepage line indicated 0.94 to 1.00 and they are showing a strong positive linear relationships. It indicates that maintenance of the dam is required by the porewater pressure transducers of the group A. In addition, a linear regression analysis was performed with the determination coefficients of the group A of 0.89 to 0.99. It was found that the pore water pressure can be predicted and the stability of the dam can be evaluated by comparing it with the currently measured values when the water level is fixed as an explanatory variable.

Deformation Characteristics of Earth Dam Raised by Non-Homogeneous Fill Materials (비균질 재료로 숭상(嵩上)한 흙 댐의 변형 특성)

  • 장옥성;이종규
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.20 no.8
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    • pp.167-180
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    • 2004
  • In this study finite element analysis using hyperbolic model was performed to predict the characteristics of stress-strain behaviour on concrete face earth dam (CFED : a tentative name) raised with coarse-grained materials corresponding to the face slab bedding zone of concrete face rockfill dam (CFRD). The results of finite element analysis were compared with field monitoring data, and the comparison showed a good agreement. And, the analysis results including locus of maximum displacement, maximum stress, stress concentration, and irregular load transfer would be used to devise rational field monitoring schemes for construction management and quality control during construction of CFED.

Interference effect by electric utilities at electric resistivity Survey of fill dam (필댐의 전기비저항 탐사시 전기매체에 의한 영향 분석 연구)

  • Kim, Jae-Hong;Shin, Dong-Hoon;Im, En-Sang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2009.09a
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    • pp.1037-1040
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    • 2009
  • Using much most electricity electric resistivity survey by nondestructiveness inquiry enforcement design of country base equipment business and facilities preservation administration dimension electric resistivity survey sends and cause much effects in survey believability by electricity medium of survey personality survey contiguity that grasp base special quality by potential difference flowing current artificially in base. Is item that enforce in most in-suite although when make electric resistivity survey until present, electricity medium or effect research by electricity origination was gone much. There is shortcoming that must be difficult to know correct underground utilities establishment state in-suite in this research and do comparison examination running parallel drilling investigation to heighten believability of electric resistivity survey. Did to dam that censure data that regulate grading from construction and is censure construction which can know correctly interior base situation comparatively to electricity medium of interior and electricity eruption won of contiguity and base condition (base rock).

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Evaluation of along-channel sediment flux gradients in an anthropocene estuary with an estuarine dam

  • Figueroa, Steven M.;Lee, Guan-hong;Chang, Jongwi;Schieder, Nathalie W.;Kim, Kyeongman;Kim, Seok-Yun;Son, Minwoo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2022.05a
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    • pp.86-86
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    • 2022
  • While estuarine dams can develop freshwater resources and block the salt intrusion, they can result in increased sediment deposition in the estuary. The mechanism of increased sediment deposition in an estuary with an estuary dam is not well understood. To fill this knowledge gap, 7 ADCP measurements of flow and suspended sediment concentration (SSC) were collected along-channel in an estuary with an estuarine dam over a neap-spring cycle. Flow and SSC were used to calculate the sediment flux and sediment flux gradients. The results indicated that the cumulative sediment fluxes at all stations were directed landward. The along-channel sediment flux gradient was negative, which indicated deposition along the channel. The landward mean-flow fluxes were dominant in the deep portion of the channel near the estuary mouth, whereas landward correlation fluxes were dominant in the shallow portion of the channel near the estuarine dam. The tides were the dominant forcing driving the sediment fluxes throughout the estuary.

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Crest Settlement Prediction of Concrete Faced Rock-Fill Dam After Initial Impounding (CFRD의 담수 후 정부침하량 예측)

  • Kim, Yong-Seong;Park, Han-Gyu;Lim, Heui-Dae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.349-354
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    • 2005
  • In this study, settlement characteristics of 23 CFRD was investigated from monitoring data and the method to estimate the crest settlements considering internal settlement during constructions was proposed. Moreover, crest settlement smaller than 20cm and deflection of face slab smaller than 20cm are not considered to be critical to the stability of large dam whose height is over 40m. Therefore, we assigned the region as safe zone that can be used as a guideline of maintenance of dam. These estimated data can be used in the design, construction and long-term maintenance in domestic CFRD hereafter.

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Impact of Parameters of Nonlinear Breach Progression Curve on Outflow Rate (저수지 붕괴함수의 매개변수 결정이 유량과 침수범위에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Khil-Ha
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.211-217
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    • 2019
  • A Numerical modeling approach is usually applied to reproduce the physical phenomena of a fill dam-break. The accuracy of the dam-break model depends on the physical structure that defines input variables such as the storage volume, breach formation and progress, and the parameters of the model, which are subjective as they are prescribed by users. In this study, a sensitivity analysis was performed for the nonlinear breach progression curve that was already developed, which includes four parameters. The study focuses on the two of the parameters which control the breach forming time and peak discharge. The model is coupled with a two-dimensional flood simulation model (FLO-2D) to examine flood coverage and depth. It is generally observed that the parameter ${\beta}$ controls only the breach forming time, the parameter ${\gamma}$ is particularly sensitive to the peak flow.

Structural-Health Evaluation for Core Zones of Fill Dams in Korea using Electrical Resistivity Survey and No Water Boring Method (전기비저항 탐사와 무수보링을 이용한 국내 필 댐 코어존의 건전성 평가)

  • Lee, Sangjong;Lim, Heuidae;Park, Dongsoon
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.16 no.8
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    • pp.21-35
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    • 2015
  • Electrical resistivity survey (2D and 3D) were employed for detection of possible weak zone of core zones of three central core earth-rockfill dams in Korea. In the 2D results, the core zones is lower resistivity zone with less than $50{\sim}400ohm{\cdot}m$, and the basement is relatively higher resistivity zone with over $1,000ohm{\cdot}m$. In the 3D results, especially, the weak zone with under $100ohm{\cdot}m$ was detected spatial distribution area in the dam. We also drilled boreholes to collect soil samples of core zones of each dam. Water was not used during boring, because water for rotary wash boring could cause structural damages in earth dams. We found that the soil samples of core zones from all of the boreholes correspond to CL (USCS), but we also found that the fluidized or water-saturated soil samples were found in lower resistivity zones. Therefore, the electrical resistivity survey and drilling method without water are a quick and efficient method for structural-health evaluation which is detection of possible weak zones in earth core rockfill dams.