Discussion: Use of soft rockfill at Evretou Dam, Cyprus

Soft-bottom decapod and stomatopod crustaceans of Northern Cyprus coast

Soft-bottom decapod and stomatopod crustaceans of Northern Cyprus coast

Remote Sensing of Deformation of a High Concrete-Faced Rockfill Dam Using InSAR: A Study of the Shuibuya Dam, China

Settlement is one of the most important deformation characteristics of high concrete faced rockfill dams (CFRDs, >100 m). High CFRDs safety would pose a great threat to the security of people’s lives and property downstream if this kind of deformation were not to be measured correctly, as traditional monitoring approaches have limitations in terms of durability, coverage, and efficiency. It has...

Displacement-Based Back-Analysis of the Model Parameters of the Nuozhadu High Earth-Rockfill Dam

The parameters of the constitutive model, the creep model, and the wetting model of materials of the Nuozhadu high earth-rockfill dam were back-analyzed together based on field monitoring displacement data by employing an intelligent back-analysis method. In this method, an artificial neural network is used as a substitute for time-consuming finite element analysis, and an evolutionary algorith...

Non-linear Analysis of Stress and Strain of Concrete-faced Rockfill Dam for Sequential Impoundment Process

The rockfill is modeled as nonlinear elastic material, whose stress-dependent tangent modulus is related to the confining pressure. The parameters of constitutive relationship of stress and strain are determined by tri-dimensional compression test in laboratory. The model applied in this study adopts the technique of element birth and death to simulate the sequential impoundment process of conc...