Title: Study on Effect of Setting Structure Joint for Xiaowan High Arch Dam
Abstract: Effect of setting structure joint for Xiaowan high arch dam is discussed considering thermal stress and water loads from construction period to operation period.A no-thickness contact element is presented to simulate structure joint,uniaxial equivalent tensile softening model is adopted as constitutive model of dam concrete.FEM analysis is performed with the whole model and sub-model in this paper.The computation results show that the tensile stress on dam heel is released.Setting structure joint on dam heel has little influence on the whole structure of dam.The results can offer theory references for design of Xiaowan High Arch Dam.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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