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Wei-jun Cen, Lang-sheng Wen, Zi-qi Zhang, Kun Xiong. 2016: Numerical simulation of seismic damage and cracking of concrete slabs of high concrete face rockfill dams. Water Science and Engineering, 9(3): 205-211. doi: 10.1016/j.wse.2016.09.001
Citation: Wei-jun Cen, Lang-sheng Wen, Zi-qi Zhang, Kun Xiong. 2016: Numerical simulation of seismic damage and cracking of concrete slabs of high concrete face rockfill dams. Water Science and Engineering, 9(3): 205-211. doi: 10.1016/j.wse.2016.09.001

Numerical simulation of seismic damage and cracking of concrete slabs of high concrete face rockfill dams

doi: 10.1016/j.wse.2016.09.001
Funds:  This work was supported by the Key Laboratory of Failure Mechanism and Safety Control Techniques of Earth-rock dams of the Ministry of Water Resources (Grant No. YK914019), the CRSRI Open Research Program (Grant No. CKWV2016376/KY), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51009055).
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  • Corresponding author: Wei-jun Cen
  • Received Date: 2015-08-23
  • Rev Recd Date: 2016-03-29
  • Based on the concrete damage constitutive model, the Weibull distribution function was used to characterize the random distribution of the mechanical properties of materials by finely subdividing concrete slab elements, and a concrete random mesoscopic damage model was established. The seismic response of a 100-m high concrete face rockfill dam (CFRD), subjected to ground motion with different intensities, was simulated with the three-dimensional finite element method (FEM), with emphasis on exploration of damage and the cracking process of concrete slabs during earthquakes as well as analysis of dynamic damage and cracking characteristics during strong earthquakes. The calculated results show that the number of damaged and cracked elements on concrete slabs grows with the duration of earthquakes. With increasing earthquake intensity, the damaged zone and cracked zone on concrete slabs grow wider. During a 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the stress level of concrete slabs is low for the CFRD, and there is almost no damage or slight damage to the slabs. While during a 9.0-magnitude strong earthquake, the percentages of damaged elements and macrocracked elements continuously ascend with the duration of the earthquake, peaking at approximately 26% and 5% at the end of the earthquake, respectively. The concrete random mesoscopic damage model can depict the entire process of sprouting, growing, connecting, and expanding of cracks on a concrete slab during earthquakes.

     

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