supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50779021);the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 8082014);the Scientific Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education;the State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, China (Grant No. 2008-TC-2)
Arch dams suffer time-varying external loadings and harsh environment that harm their physical properties. With the aging of such dams, damage accumulates and concrete degradation inevitably appears. In this paper, a ...