Analytical Assessment of Combined Sliding and Overturning Failure in Concrete DamsShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Structural Engineering International, ISSN 1016-8664, E-ISSN 1683-0350Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]
Load capacity assessment of concrete dams often includes verification of the stability for multiple separate failure modes, such as sliding and overturning. However, in the case of dams, the underlying failure mechanism for these failure modes may be too idealized, and the analysis could yield inaccurate results. Previous research has, for example, shown that regular rigid-body sliding failure analysis provides inaccurate load capacity estimates for dams with uneven interface geometries. This article discusses the behavior of such dams and presents a failure mode that combines the traditional sliding and overturning failures. The failure mode is termed combined sliding and overturning and serves as an intermediate to the traditional failure modes. It allows for the assessment of concrete dams with uneven interface geometries, whose behavior is not expected to be fully represented by only sliding or overturning. To estimate the load capacity for the presented failure mode, an analytical formulation based on simple force and moment equilibrium is provided. The formulation is compared with finite element simulations and previously reported results from experimental scale model tests and is shown to accurately predict the load capacity.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Informa UK Limited , 2025.
Keywords [en]
analytical formulation, Concrete dams, finite element analysis, overturning failure, sliding failure
National Category
Infrastructure Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-372050DOI: 10.1080/10168664.2025.2555918ISI: 001585693100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105018031831OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-372050DiVA, id: diva2:2011280
Note
QC 20251104
2025-11-042025-11-042025-11-04Bibliographically approved