Application of artificial accelerograms to estimating damage to dams using failure criteria

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze damage to dams by using two recent methodologies. The first method was used to define the performance and response curves of concrete gravity dams. The second method defined the seismic input that was obtained from power spectral density function consistent with the response spectrum. Both methods are efficient, practical, and useful to develop quite complicated analysis as the construction of the stochastic process to define the synthetic earthquake and the estimation of cracks in the dam's body. These methodologies were explained and modified to improve their use. The uid behavior of arch dams was compared with that of storage tanks by studying the sloshing phenomenon, which is usually neglected for dams. For the mathematical modeling, interactive programming language was used.