Seismic Deformation of Earth Dams: A State-of-the-art Review

Earthquakes are natural phenomena that cause terrible disasters for human society. Many of the caused by earthquakes around world serve as warnings to us about fragility life and immaturity science - especially construction science. For earth dams, which made up mostly compacted earth, most common type in world, an earthquake can have enormous consequences if it causes a dam failure. Thus, proper seismic safety evaluations utmost importance terms assuring dams. Along with advancements technology, knowledge field engineering has been expanding. studies done on effects dams many methods developed estimate deformation these during earthquakes. This paper firstly presents observed performance past help provide insight into general well response earthquake. The also summarizes presently available estimating These design engineers confidence when dealing one difficult geotechnical challenges they will ever face.