The Janneh dam is a 162-meter high Roller Compacted Concrete arch-gravity dam under construction in the Nahr Ibrahim Valley of Lebanon. The impounded reservoir will supply water, irrigate agricultural areas and generate hydropower [1]. The dam will serve the Northern areas of Greater Beirut Mount Lebanon [2]. The project site is located in highseismicity region. The Peak Ground Accelerations ar...

The Janneh dam is a 162-meter high Roller Compacted Concrete arch-gravity dam under construction in the Nahr Ibrahim Valley of Lebanon. The impounded reservoir will supply water, irrigate agricultural areas and generate hydropower [1]. The dam will serve the Northern areas of Greater Beirut Mount Lebanon [2]. The project site is located in highseismicity region. The Peak Ground Accelerations ar...

ABSTRACT: An efficient method is proposed to find optimal design of arch dams on the basis of constrained natural frequencies utilizing continuous evolutionary algorithm. To extract natural frequencies of arch dam considering fluid-structure interaction, it is necessary to solve the unsymmetrical damped eigenproblem. This means that the process of natural frequencies extraction may impose much ...

Joints, which are usually located in the abutments of dams, play a vital role seismic stability evaluation arch dams. This paper presents comprehensive numerical investigation influence uplift pressure joints on response an dam, with focus interaction between dam and rock wedges. For this study, Bakhtiari having one wedge at each abutment, was chosen as case three distinct finite element models...

Differences between stress-based and strain-based criteria are investigated in seismic performance evaluation of the arch dams in time domain. A numerical model of the coupled dam-reservoir-foundation system is prepared with the finite element technique. Reservoir is modeled using the Eulerian approach as a compressible domain, and the foundation rock is assumed to be massless. Dynamic equilibr...

A dam ant colony optimization (D-ACO) analysis of the overall stability of high arch dams on complicated foundations is presented in this paper. A modified ant colony optimization (ACO) model is proposed for obtaining dam concrete and rock mechanical parameters. A typical dam parameter feedback problem is proposed for nonlinear back-analysis numerical model based on field monitoring deformation...

The simulation of damage process of high arch dam subjected to strong earthquake shocks is significant to the evaluation of its performance and seismic safety, considering the catastrophic effect of dam failure. However, such numerical simulation requires rigorous computational capacity. Conventional serial computing falls short of that and parallel computing is a fairly promising solution to t...