<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) dams are actually a combination of concrete dams' safety and procedure of earth dam while accelerating construction and reducing administrative costs, have high safety. And why in the world and Iran, constructing this type of dam has growing trend. The first roller compacted concrete (RCC) dam of Iran (Jegin dam) has come into operation in 2006. In terms of expressed statistics and given that, none of these dams has not been subject to severe earthquake, roller concrete dam operations is not specified in facing with severe earthquake and its merits and faults. Therefore, the need for seismic analysis of these dams in the design, implementation and operation is obvious. In the meantime, the lack of studies on how modeling of roller compacted concrete (RCC) dams using finite element software, especially on how to foundation modeling (dimensions, material properties, interaction of foundation and dam), modeling dam lake (the length of lake, the water level, the interaction between the lake and the dam body) felt. In this study, dynamic analysis of roller compacted concrete (RCC) dam using ABAQUS finite element software and modeling one of the roller compacted concrete (RCC) dams of Malaysia with the change approach of foundation boundary conditions will be considered.</p></abstract>

Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) dams are actually a combination of concrete dams' safety and procedure of earth dam while accelerating construction and reducing administrative costs, have high safety. And why in the world and Iran, constructing this type of dam has growing trend. The first roller compacted concrete (RCC) dam of Iran (Jegin dam) has come into operation in 2006. In terms of expressed statistics and given that, none of these dams has not been subject to severe earthquake, roller concrete dam operations is not specified in facing with severe earthquake and its merits and faults. Therefore, the need for seismic analysis of these dams in the design, implementation and operation is obvious. In the meantime, the lack of studies on how modeling of roller compacted concrete (RCC) dams using finite element software, especially on how to foundation modeling (dimensions, material properties, interaction of foundation and dam), modeling dam lake (the length of lake, the water level, the interaction between the lake and the dam body) felt. In this study, dynamic analysis of roller compacted concrete (RCC) dam using ABAQUS finite element software and modeling one of the roller compacted concrete (RCC) dams of Malaysia with the change approach of foundation boundary conditions will be considered.

Seismic Behavior of RCC Dams Including the Effect of Foundation

Department of Civil Engineering, Parand Branch

Journal of Applied Engineering Sciences

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Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) dams are actually a combination of concrete dams' safety and procedure of earth dam while accelerating construction and...

Seismic Behavior of RCC Dams Including the Effect of Foundation

Publicado en línea: 29 dic 2017

Páginas: 39 - 43

Recibido: 14 sept 2017

Aceptado: 20 sept 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jaes-2017-0011

Palabras clave
Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC), dam – foundation interaction, boundary conditions, nonlinear dynamic analysis

© 2017 Z. Heirany, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Seismic Behavior of RCC Dams Including the Effect of Foundation

Publicado en línea: 29 dic 2017

Páginas: 39 - 43

Recibido: 14 sept 2017

Aceptado: 20 sept 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jaes-2017-0011

Palabras claveRoller Compacted Concrete (RCC), dam – foundation interaction, boundary conditions, nonlinear dynamic analysis

© 2017 Z. Heirany, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC), dam – foundation interaction, boundary conditions, nonlinear dynamic analysis