...1. INTRODUCTION To design gravity dam foundations against sliding, several guidelines recommend 1) to consider the rock- concrete dam contact as an unbonded joint and, 2) to use the Mohr-Coulomb (M-C) criterion to assess the sliding stability (USBR, 1987; USACE, 1995; CFBR, 2012; FERC, 2016...

... ABSTRACT: As one of three key factors in ground motion, the effect of seismic duration on the dynamic response of gravity dam most focus on theoretical analysis, and few concrete dam model tests are carried out to discuss about it. In order to research the influence of duration on the seismic...

... ABSTRACT: Union Park Dam, a modern roller-compacted concrete (RCC) gravity dam, with its maximum height of 575 feet and crest length of 2,050 feet, will be the key feature of a major Colorado water supply and hydroelectric power project, the Central Colorado Project (CCP) also known...

... Reservoir Characterization concrete gravity dam strength stability gravity dam reservoir geomechanics displacement width-depth combination parametric study principal stress optimize mud wt vertical displacement modulii horizontal distance dam-foundation interface foundation...

...2&th U.S. Sympontum on Rock Mechantca June 1983 FRICTION CIRCLE STABILITY ANALYSES FOR GRAVITY DAMS JAMES V. HAMEL Hamel Geotechnical Consultants 1992 Butler Drive, Monroeville, PA 15146 The friction circle method is a two-dimensional limiting equilibrium technique of stability analysis which...