supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51979176);the Water Conservancy Technology Demonstration Program of the Ministry of Water Resources(Grant No.SF202108);the Fundamental Research Fund Program of the National Research Institutes for Public Welfare(Grant No.Y720001)。
China’s many dams are increasingly facing safety problems resulting from the natural aging of the dam hydraulic structure and geological disasters such as earthquakes under the operating condition of holding a vast a...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41731289);the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin(Grant No.2016ZY08);the Consultation and Evaluation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2018-Z02-A-008)
In the context of an impending dam failure, quick evaluation of dam breach flood is necessary. Previous studies provided an approach to calculate the dam breach hydrograph using an Excel spreadsheet based on the impro...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2016YFC0401706);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51679262);the IWHR Research&Development Support Program(Grant Nos.HY0145B642017,and HY0145B802017)
This study evaluates the possibility of a cascade failure by developing a coupled breach-modeling platform based on onedimensional flow modeling of the river channel, flood propagation, regulation process of reservoir...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51139001,51179066,51079046,50909041);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No. NCET-10-0359);Jiangsu Province "333 High-Level Personnel Training Project" (Grant No. 2017-B08037);the Ministry of Water Resources Public Welfare Industry Research Special Fund Project (Grant No. 201201038)
More than 87000 dams have been built in China,and about one third of them are risky projects.A number of high and ultra-high dams are being constructed in China's western region.The current dam construction practice t...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China ("973" Program) (Grant No. 2007CB714103);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 90815024)
In this study,a numerical model,which can capture the full process of the development of seepage passages,the collapse of dams and the failure due to overtopping,is proposed for earth-rock dams.The critical incipient ...
supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program (Grant No.2008BAB29B05);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.50909105);the Public Industry Research Special Funds of MWR(Grant No.200801007);the Research Special Funds of IWHR
As an integrated structure,an arch dam is assumed to bear loads in its design consideration.However,multi-defects,such as cracks and the opening of transverse joints,are unavoidable during construction and operation.M...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China("973" Project)(Grant No.2007CB714104);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51079045)
The global stability of high arch dam is one of the key problems in the safety study of arch dams,but no feasible method with theoretical basis is available.In this paper,based on the stability theory of mechanical sy...
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...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.50539120);the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No. 51021004);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.90815019)
Temperature control,which is directly responsible for the project quality and progress,plays an important role in high arch dam construction.How to discover the rules from a large amount of temperature control informa...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.50979063)
One of the possible negative environmental effects of hydropower stations is the supersaturation of total dissolved gas (TDG) downstream of high-dams,which can lead to gas bubble disease or even death of fish. By taki...