Seismic analysis of concrete arch dams by combined discrete crack and non-orthogonal smeared crack technique

Engineering Structures

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-37

  Lotfi , Vahid ^a   Espandar, Radin ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Concrete arch dam; Discrete crack; Nonlinear dynamic analysis; Smeared crack

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DISCRETE CRACK (DC);

CONCRETE DAMS;

ARCH DAM; FRACTURE MECHANICS; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

DAM; FRACTURE MECHANICS; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 0347506114     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2003.08.007     Document Type: Article

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