A constant head permeability test of the coarse-grained soil an earth-rockfill dam was carried out and gradation tested determined based on continuous equation. Based results, empirical formula coefficient considering influence established. The can be used to assess with respect area under curve. applicability verified results from other studies. It found that suitable for soil. This paper prov...

The Soltan Dam on the river Soltan, a branch of Tine River, is located about 19 km of Mateur city in the northeast of Tunisia. The dam is now under Study and will be constructed in 2017. The Soltan Dam has been designed as an earth fill dam with homogeneous materials. The dam and its associated concrete structures are mainly founded on marl, shale and shale of Lower Miocene age, sandstone of th...

Dams are one of the most important water structures built to meet vital needs people such as irrigation and energy. It is great importance examine seismic safety dams. In addition, it investigate interaction behavior dams due bodies dams, reservoir water, foundation being in constant interaction. Therefore, this study, clay core rockfill (CCR) investigated by considering dam-foundation-reservoi...

The shape optimization of gravity dam is posed as an optimization problem with goals of minimum value of concrete, stresses and maximum safety against overturning and sliding need to be achieved. Optimally designed structure generally saves large investments especially for a large structure. The size of hydraulic structures is usually huge and thus requires a huge investment. If the optimizatio...

This study presents a least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) based displacement prediction model for health monitoring of concrete dams. LSSVM is a novel machine learning technique. The model can produce similar good generalization performance and learns faster than the basic support vector machines in engineering problems. The advantages such as high prediction accuracy, fast training sp...