Seismic evaluation of existing earth-cored rockfill dams on FE and Newmark type analyses |
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학술지명 ICOLD 25th Congress and ICOLD 83rd Annual Meeting
저자 박동순
발표일 2015-06-17
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Recent devastating earthquakes (i.e., 2011 Tohoku earthquake and 2008 Wenchuan earthquake) caused associated damages in existing dams and have facilitated a research need for seismic performance of dams under strong motions. With this background, seismic performance of 21 existing earth-cored rockfill dams in Korea was re-evaluated using revised design criteria and methods including Finite Element and Newmark type deformation analyses. A systematic procedure was applied in a row of pseudo-static limit equilibrium analysis, steady state FE (finite element) seepage analysis, equivalent-linear dynamic response analysis, and Newmark type deformation analysis. In order to reflect in-situ dynamic soil properties as input parameters, innovative in-situ shear wave velocity profiles were adopted using up-to-date geophysical survey. A comparison between pseudo-static limit equilibrium and FE/Newmark deformation analyses proved that for pesudo-static method with kh of 70% design PGA and allowable factor of safety (FS) of 1.2 was found to be significantly conservative. As a result of FE/Newmark type analyses, existing earth-cored rockfill dams showed a reasonably satisfactory performance under the newly updated design standard PGA in Korea. Additional sensitivity analyses showed that the amplification of ground motion within the sliding mass, the location of critical slip surface, and the internal friction angle of shell materials are the dominant factors governing permanent displacements. |