A Numerical Study on an Earth Dam Safety By Using Finite Element Method

This book is divided into six chapters along with an appendix. The first chapter consists of introduction, objective, problem statement and then review of previous work. Second chapter gives a detailed background about the earth dams. Third chapter explicitly describes the basic information for the case study dam. Chapter four speaks about methodology and presents the details of the numerical and finite element analysis methods in Geo-studio software program. Chapter five consists of analysis results and discussion. The last chapter provides conclusions. In this book geotechnical re-assessment conducted for an earth dam as a case study. Where, slope stability examined for many conditions: at the end of construction, steady state seepage, rapid drawdown, instantaneous and slow drawdown of reservoir level. While seepage investigated for both static steady state and transient, also piping investigated. Moreover dam examined for earthquake case by using dynamic analysis to check the effect of this case on the dam stability, deformation and seepage. The dam simulated in numerically model and analysed by using finite element method. Geostudio 2012, software used to perform the analysis.