Seismic assessment of Scottish dams
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Published:2002
K J Dempster, A C Morison, S C Gallocher, S Bu, 2002. "Seismic assessment of Scottish dams", Reservoirs in a Changing World: Proceedings of the 12th conference of the BDS held at TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN 4 – 8 September 2002, Paul Tedd
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Halcrow Group are undertaking seismic assessment of the 90+ dams of various types owned by Scottish and Southern Energy. Initial work involved seismic assessment and ranking of all the dams and selection of key dams, for which a subjective ‘seismic vulnerability index’ was developed to complement the UK seismic risk classification. Assessment of the key dams was generally carried out using both dynamic finite element seismic analysis and a simplified method. A range of sensitivity cases were included in the key dam analyses. From these it was possible to assess the range of likely performance of the key dams under seismic conditions and, using simplified analysis, to extrapolate this to the majority of the other dams of similar type.
INTRODUCTION
INITIAL REVIEW
ANALYSIS OF GRAVITY DAMS
ANALYSIS OF BUTTRESS DAMS
ANALYSIS OF MONAR ARCH DAM
ANALYSIS OF EMBANKMENT DAMS
CONCLUSIONS
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