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 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...

one of the important problems in earthquake geotechnical engineering is liquefaction phenomenon that happens in loose saturated granular soils. in this study, 11 boreholes from govanjik and dayalar area in downstream of sattarkhan dam collected and evaluated. results of research are showed that with assuming cementation in soils, liquefaction potential is weak to moderate than non-cemented cond...

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...

Risk analysis of gravity dam stability involves complicated uncertainty in many design parameters and measured data. Stability failure risk ratio described jointly by probability and possibility has deficiency in characterization of influence of fuzzy factors and representation of the likelihood of risk occurrence in practical engineering. In this article, credibility theory is applied into sta...

considering the seepage and choosing an efficient sealing method is very important in dam projects. this issue has a close relationship with engineering geological properties of the dam site. chapar-abad dam is an inhomogeneous earth-fill dam of 44.5 meters height, crest length about 427 meters and a reservoir capacity of 127 million cubic meters. the dam project is under construction and is lo...

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...