Seismic behavior of concrete gravity dams with penetrated cracks and equivalent impact damping

Engineering Structures

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 336-345

  Zhu, Xueye ^a   Pekau, O A ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concrete gravity dams; Cracks; FEM; Impact damping; Seismic behavior

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; DAMPING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAVITY DAMS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEISMOLOGY;

CONCRETE GRAVITY DAMS; IMPACT DAMPING; SEISMIC BEHAVIOR;

CONCRETE DAMS;

CONCRETE DAMS; CRACKS; DAMPING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAVITY DAMS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEISMOLOGY;

CONCRETE STRUCTURE; CRACK; DAMPING; DISPLACEMENT; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAVITY DAM; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 33846333933     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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