Seismic stability of cracked concrete dams using rigid block models

Computers and Structures

Volumn 84, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 1802-1814

  Ftima, Mehdi Ben ^a   Léger, Pierre ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cracking; Earthquake response; Floor (in structure) response spectrum; Gravity dams; Input accelerograms; Rigid body dynamics; Sliding

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; GRAVITY DAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE; FLOOR (IN STRUCTURE) RESPONSE SPECTRUM; IN STRUCTURE RESPONSE SPECTRA (ISRS); INPUT ACCELEROGRAMS; RIGID BODY DYNAMICS; SLIDING;

CONCRETE DAMS;

EID: 33748881014     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2006.04.012     Document Type: Article

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