background: dams are one of the most important manmade buildings to provide of drinking water. in order to manage of water quality in dams reservoirs, the recognition of phenomena that occurred in it is essential. thermal stratification is one of the major problems that decrease the water quality of dam. the aim of this study was to investigate thermal stratification of ekbatan dam (hamadan) as...

background: eutrophication is one of the detrimental environmental problems in water reservoirs dye to the irregular introducing nutrients (phosphorus and nitrogen). this study aimed to explore the eutrophication state of ekbatan reservoir, hamadan, western iran. methods: monthly sampling was conducted during april 2010 to march 2011. seven sampling stations were selected in the various locatio...

This paper proposes and validates a new formulation on the dynamic response of dam-reservoir system, including water compressibility, absorption of the boundary of the reservoir, the earthquake excitation from different directions and the radiation condition boundary at infinity. The impounded water is modeled by Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method, and discretization only at the boundary coi...

In the present article, effect of non-uniform excitation of reservoir bottom on nonlinear response of concrete gravity dams is considered. Anisotropic damage mechanics approach is used to model nonlinear behavior of mass concrete in 2D space. The tallest monolith of Pine Flat dam is selected as a case study. The horizontal and vertical components of 1967 Koyna earthquake is used to excite the s...

Monitoring deformation pattern of dams is often one of the most effective ways to understand their safety status. The main objective of the study is to find the extent to which rising reservoir level affects the mechanism of deformation of The Yamula Dam under certain change in the reservoir level conditions during to the first filling period. Three different deformation analysis techniques, na...

Sensing and monitoring deformation pattern of dams is often one of the most effective ways to understand their safety status. The main objective of the present study is to find the extent to which rising reservoir level affects the mechanism of deformation of the Yamula dam under certain changes in the reservoir level conditions during the first filling period. A new dynamic deformation analysi...

Planning for supply water demands (drinkable and irrigation water demands) is a necessary problem. For this purpose, three subjects must be considered (optimization of water supply systems such as volume of reservoir dams, optimization of released water from reservoir and prediction of next droughts). For optimization of volume of reservoir dams, yield model is applied. Reliability of yield mod...

In the present paper, some finite element softwares about interaction of dam and reservoir during earthquake in time domain are discussed. Impedance option is used as boundary condition of absorbent of reservoir and wave. For each software, time history analysis of pressure and displacement are done and finally suitable elements for dam structure and reservoir fluid are introduced comparing the...