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Computers and Concrete
  Volume 12, Number 1, July 2013 , pages 065-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/cac.2013.12.1.065
 


Damage analysis of arch dam under blast loading
Xinhua Xue, Xingguo Yang and Wohua Zhang

 
Abstract
    This paper examines the dynamic response of an arch dam subjected to blast loading. A damage model is developed for three dimensional analysis of arch dams. The modified Drucker-Prager criterion is adopted as the failure criteria of the damage evolution in concrete. Then, Xiluodu arch dam serves as an example to simulate the failure behaviors of structures with the proposed model. The results obtained using the proposed model can reveal the reliability degree of the safe operation level of the high arch dam system as well as the degree of potential failure, providing a reliable basis for risk assessment and risk control.
 
Key Words
    damage; blast loading; response; risk control
 
Address
Xinhua Xue and Xingguo Yang: College of Water Resource and Hydropower, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R. China

Wohua Zhang: MOE Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China
 

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