Kishen, Chandra JM (2005) Recent developments in safety assessment of concrete gravity dams. In: Current Science, 89 (4). pp. 650-656.
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Abstract
Most of the dams in India were built in the sixties, when only simple methods could be used to properly design them. Forty years later, despite the progress made in our capability to conduct sophisticated finite element studies, current analyses procedures for safety assessment remain essentially the same as those used earlier for design. The main objective of this article is to highlight the work done in the area of fracture mechanics for safety assessment of gravity dams. It is shown that the conventional strength of materials-based design leads to large factors of safety when compared to the more recent and rational concepts of fracture mechanics.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Current Science |
Publisher: | Indian Academy of Sciences |
Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to Indian Academy of Sciences. |
Keywords: | Fracture energy;fracture toughness;gravity dam;shear friction factor of safety;sliding failure |
Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering |
Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2005 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2010 04:20 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/3769 |
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