Affiliation:
1. Department of Dam Safety and Management, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, No. 223 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing 210098, China
Abstract
There are a large number of reservoir dams in China, of which embankment dams account for more than 90%, and public safety will be seriously endangered in case of dam failure. Overtopping is the leading cause of dam failure, and the existing research mainly focuses on the study of the failure process, with less research on the change in the deformation field during the failure process. In this study, the measured deformation field data of a modeled embankment dam during the whole process of impoundment, operation, and failure were obtained by carrying out indoor small-scale model experiments of overtopping failure, embedding inclinometers inside the dam body, and setting vertical displacement measurement markers on the surface. A refined analysis of the measured deformation data shows that the dam body displaces vertically downward during the impoundment stage and the vertical displacement at the dam crest has the largest amplitude; the internal horizontal displacement changes to the left bank and downstream side, and the amplitude of the internal horizontal displacement (upstream and downstream direction and dam axis direction) on the right dam sections is more significant than that in the middle of the dam; during the breaching stage, the time sequence of the sudden change in each internal horizontal displacement measuring point is from the downstream side to the upstream side and from the higher elevation to the lower elevation, which is basically consistent with the process of overtopping of embankment dams; and the overall sudden change in left and right bank horizontal displacements within the downstream side of the dam crest and the downstream side of the dam body gauges is significant, and the sudden change in upstream and downstream horizontal displacement (U&D HD) within the downstream side of the dam crest gauges is significant. The experimental analysis results can support the disaster mechanism of embankment dam failure and the theory of early warning of failure.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute’s Basic Scientific Research Business Fund Scientific Research and Innovation Team Building Project
Nanjing Hydrological Research Institute’s Basic Scientific Research Business Fee Leading Project
Subject
Water Science and Technology,Aquatic Science,Geography, Planning and Development,Biochemistry
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