iran is an active seismic region. earthquake damage is commonly controlled by three interacting factors including source and path characteristics, local geological and geotechnical conditions and type of the structures. obviously, all of this would require analysis and presentation of a large amount of geological, seismological and geotechnical data. in this paper, nonlinear geotechnical seismi...

Iran is an active seismic region. Earthquake damage is commonly controlled by three interacting factors including source and path characteristics, local geological and geotechnical conditions and type of the structures. Obviously, all of this would require analysis and presentation of a large amount of geological, seismological and geotechnical data. In this paper, nonlinear geotechnical seismi...

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 research intends to develop a method based on the artificial neural network (ann) to predict permanent earthquake-induced deformation of the earth dams and embankments. for this purpose, data sets of observations from 152 published case histories on the performance of the earth dams and embankments, during the past earthquakes, was used. in order to predict earthquake-induced deformation o...

Earth dam is a structure as homogeneous or non-homogeneous forms for raising water level or water supply. Earth dam consist of different parts that one of the main parts is clay core. Choosing an optimal non permeable core which causes reduction of seepage through dam body and also being stable is necessary. The objective of this research is to optimize the geometry of earth dam clay core such ...

Dam construction is one of the challenges among large-scale projects of a country. Among different types of dams, due to special features, earth dams are the most kind of dams that were constructed in Iran in the past three decades. Features such as efficiency and stability of earth dams have an important effect on their operation and prevent them to be damaged. Taham dam is clay core dam which...

stability and safety analysis of dams is a subject which has been studied in recent years by several researchers. researchers have used various methods and models for studying the stability of the dam. several methods are proposed for the analysis of earth dams under earthquakes. some of these methods are viscoelastic methods and semi static methods. each of these methods can be used as an appr...

earth dam is a structure as homogeneous or non-homogeneous forms for raising water level or water supply. earth dam consist of different parts that one of the main parts is clay core. choosing an optimal non permeable core which causes reduction of seepage through dam body and also being stable is necessary. the objective of this research is to optimize the geometry of earth dam clay core such ...

Earth dams have been used widely recently in flood and sedimentation control projects and feeding ground waters in country's watersheds and correct locating for such structures is necessary for increasing their efficiency. In this work, it is attempted to determine the correct locations for constricting earth dams in Yoosef-abad watershed in Tabas using v and incorporating information layers. T...

One of the main concerns to design earth dam is the stability of the upstream slope of the earth dam in phase of rapid drawdown. Confined pore water pressure reduces the effective stress in this mode, so possibility of the instability and slippage will be increased. The main goal of this research is to investigate changes in the pore water pressure by using horizontal drains in upstream slope o...