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Reliability Analysis Of Concrete Gravity Dams Under Earthquake Loads, Anu Abraham
Reliability Analysis Of Concrete Gravity Dams Under Earthquake Loads, Anu Abraham
LSU Master's Theses
Dams are infrastructure assets of extreme importance; the failure of which can have catastrophic consequences on adjacent communities. Therefore, it is prudent for authorities to evaluate the safety of existing dams in seismically active regions. This thesis focuses on carrying out a reliability analysis of concrete gravity dams under earthquake loads using an enhanced finite element model. For many years, reliability studies on concrete gravity dams were performed using a finite element model that considered a massless foundation and assumed that water is incompressible. Moreover, the design ground motion was applied without any modification either at the bottom fixed boundary …