Seismic Safety Evaluation of Concrete Dams A Nonlinear Behavioral Approach [Hardcover]

The consequences of a large dam failing can be disastrous. However, predicting the performance of concrete dams during earthquakes is one of the most complex and challenging problems in structural dynamics. Based on a nonlinear approach, Seismic Safety Evaluation of Concrete Dams allows engineers to build models that account for nonlinear phenomena such as vertical joint slippage, cracks, and cavitation. This yields more accurate estimates. Advanced but readable, this book is the culmination of the work carried out by Tsinghua University Research Group on Earthquake Resistance on Dams over the last two decades.

• Nonlinearity characteristics of high concrete dams, seismic analysis methods, evaluation models
• A systematic approach to nonlinear analysis and seismic safety evaluation of concrete dams
• Includes nonlinear fracture of dam-water-foundation interaction system, dynamic fluid-structure
• Covers soil-structure interactions, and meso-scale mechanical behavior of concrete are all international front issues of the field

Part One: Challenges of high dam constructions to computational mechanics 1. Challenges of High Dam Construction to Computational Mechanics 2. The performance of dams during the wenchuan 5-12 earthquake 3. Seismic safety evaluation of high concrete dams 4. Seismic safety evaluation of high concrete dams: Case study 5. A primary digital dam simulation system for an Arch Dam

Part?2? Dynamic Soil-Structure and Fluid-Structure Interactions 6. A coupling procedure of FE and SBFE for soil-structure interaction 7. Time-domain analysis of gravity dam-reservoir interaction 8. Finite element analysis of dam-reservoir interaction 9. Analytical solutions for dynamic pressures of coupling fluid 10. Modification of equatil³-