By National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams
The probability posed by way of huge dams has lengthy been recognized. This e-book evaluates modern wisdom concerning the earthquake functionality of concrete dams, together with strategies for investigating the seismic protection of such buildings. It informs researchers approximately earthquake research of concrete dams and identifies components the place extra wisdom is required.
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EARTHQUAKE INPUT 33 Other methods of defensive design of concrete gravity dams for fault displacement include the placement of a zoned self-healing berm of embankment material at the heel of the dam and a buttressing berm of freedraining granular fill against the downstream face (2-63). Reference 2-63 also states that an acceptable defense may not exist for thin arch dams against fault displacements. STATUS OF STRONG-MOTION INSTRUMENT NETWORKS The topic of strong-motion instrumentation placed at concrete dam sites for the purpose of studying the spatial variation of ground motion has not received sufficient attention.
Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution. 029 g in the E-W direction; the dam axis lies approximately in the N-S direction. 021 g (E-W). 026 g (E-W). 021 g (E-W). The spatial variation revealed by these data is quite indicative of the lack of uniformity in the earthquake motions of the rock supporting the dam. In a translated paper (2-49) the findings of a model test of Toktogul Dam are reported. The model had a length scale of 1:4,000 and it simulated the topography of the Toktogul dam site, which covers an area of 6 × 6 km and was 4 km deep.
Records were obtained at three locations along the dam-foundation interface, two at crest level at the abutment and one at the base of the dam. 88. 002 cm/ sec. Observed motion at the Chirkey (arch) Dam in the Soviet Union was reported in a translated paper (2-44). 5 earthquake that occurred on 4 February 1971 at an epicentral distance of 46 km. 62 cm/sec, respectively. 5 when the height of the observation point increased by 100 m. The Whittier, California, earthquake of 1 October 1987 triggered all 16 of the accelerometers that had been installed on Pacoima Dam.