supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, Grant No. 2007CB714104);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50779011);the Innovative Project for Graduate Students of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. CX10B_202Z)
The seismic stability of a cracked dam was examined in this study. Geometric nonlinearity and large deformations, as well as the contact condition at the crack site, were taken into consideration. The location of pene...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program,Grant No.2007CB714104);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50779011);the Innovative Project for Graduate Students of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. CX09B_155Z)
Considering that there are some limitations in analyzing the anti-sliding seismic stability of dam-foundation systems with the traditional pseudo-static method and response spectrum method, the dynamic strength reduct...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.50539030,50779011,11132003);the National Basic Research Program of China("973"Project)(Grant No.2007CB714104);the Innovative Project for Graduate Students of Jiangsu Province (Grant No.CX10B_202Z)
In the paper,the added tangential nonlinear springs are introduced to represent the effects of one-way and two-way shear keys. The added tangential stiffness coefficient is relative to the joint opening and the relati...