ASCE will be sunsetting the Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) in the coming months. We encourage you to start using the ASCE Library to perform content searches. In the ASCE Library, you can save your search results as well as receive email content alerts when new content relevant to your area of interest is published. Try it out today at https://ascelibrary.org.

 

Time-Domain Dam-Reservoir-Interaction Analysis Based on Boundary Elements

by Dieter H. Wepf, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland,
John P. Wolf, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Dynamics of Structures

Abstract:

For a reservoir with an arbitrary shape of the upstream face and of the bottom including an adjacent regular part of constant depth extending to infinity, the hydrodynamic-stiffness matrix in the frequency domain for a displacement formulation is derived using the boundary-element method. The fundamental solution takes the boundary condition at the free surface into account. This boundary-element solution agrees well with analytical results and with those of other numerical procedures based on a time-stepping method. The method is also applied to an actual earthquake acting on a reservoir with an irregular part with an inclined bottom and a regular part extending to infinity. The results of the analysis in the time domain coincide with those determined in the frequency domain.

Subject Headings: Boundary element method | Reservoirs | Fluid-structure interaction | Concrete dams | Structural members | Matrix (mathematics) | Mathematics

Services: Buy this book/Buy this article

 

Return to search