In present study, the effect of reservoir length on seismic performance of concrete gravity dam has been investigated. Monte Carlo probabilistic analysis has been used to achieve a sensitivity of the responses to variation of truncated reservoir length in finite element model. The ANSYS software based on finite element method is applied for modeling and analysis. The Pine Flat dam in California...

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We introduce a method for 3D implicit geological structural modeling from sparse sample points, where several conformable surfaces are represented by one single scalar field. Laplacian and Hessian regularization energies discretized on tetrahedral mesh using finite elements. This scheme is believed to offer some geometrical flexibility as it readily implemented both structured unstructured grid...

The most important microstructural processes involved in shock consolidation are identified and illustrated for a nickel-based superalloy and silicon carbide. Interparticle melting, vorticity, voids, and particle fracture are observed. Various energy dissipation processes are identified and analyzed: plastic deformation, interparticle friction, microkmetic energy, defect generation. An analytic...