Abstract: Seasonal temperature displacements are an important component of the total displacements recorded by pendulum measurements at gravity dams located in northern regions. A hybrid dam displacement model is presented in this ...

Abstract: Rockfill buttressing is often considered to strengthen existing gravity dams that have inadequate stability to resist the estimated hydrostatic and seismic loads. Various simplified methods for static stability analyses ...

Abstract: This paper presents an innovative three-dimensional performance-based earthquake engineering assessment methodology for gated spillways. Several functionality and structural stability limit states are defined. The functionality ...

Abstract: The seismic input energy imparted to a structure is dissipated by hysteretic behavior and other nonyielding mechanisms usually represented by equivalent viscous damping. It is generally recognized that there is a strong ...

Abstract: The classical structural stability evaluation of concrete hydraulic structures, such as spillways, is based on the application of rigid body equilibrium to compute force and moment resultants, and in most instances beam ...

Abstract: This paper presents frequency domain solution algorithms of the one-dimensional transient heat transfer equation that describes temperature variations in arch dam cross sections. Algorithms are developed to compute the temperature

Abstract: Envelopes for biaxial bending capacity of reinforced concrete elements are used extensively in design or in structural safety evaluation to verify the adequacy of internal force resultants from series of axial

Abstract: A method is presented for evaluating the fatigue of offshore structural steel members based on structural component reliability procedures coupled with spectral analysis methods. The approach is based on formulating a ...

Abstract: Smeared crack analysis models based on a nonlinear fracture mechanics (NLFM) crack propagation criterion are considered to study the two‐dimensional static fracture behavior of plain concrete structures. A coaxial rotating ...