An autocad figure of a cfrd design for changuinola ii, described in chapter 4. The report considers the behavior of the cfrd of 148 m height on a fractured rock foundation under seismic impact of 7 earthquake intensity msk64 scale. Dam design and construction methods for the most usual types of large dams are presented and justified in section four. Compare design alternatives, and better understand the implications of your choices before manufacturing. It aims to develop a model for the estimation of the construction duration of a dam in the planning stage. The design of this unique large dam in the new zealand context was a longterm collaboration of local dam design expertise and international experience that took the historic precedent based design approach for cfrd s and supplemented this with modern embankment design techniques for the highly seismic environment at the dam. The inherent features of concrete face rockfill dams and the trend of building higher dams have been recently questioned by three recent incidents where major dams have experienced significant cracking in the central portion of the dam. Geotechnical investigations for dam and reservoir sites content writer. The general principles presented herein are also applicable to the design and construction of earth levees. The dam site is located less than 10 km from an extension of the north anatolian fault under the marmara sea. Reinforced concrete slabs replaced timber as the impervious element for higher and permanent dams in. It is a concrete face rockfill dam cfrd built to provide water supply to braganca town reinforcing the current reserve of the serra serrada dam located approximately 3 km west of montesinho. Concrete face rockfill dams cfrds are becoming a widely used type of rockfill dam all over the world. Engineering and manufacturing mathematics building materials control systems dams earth dams.
Introduction the concrete face rockfill dam is, among all types of dams. Design optimization of a concrete face rockfill dam by using. Heights of cfrds has passed 200 m where shuibuya dam which is under construction in china, is 230 m high and will be the highest cfrd in the world. The cokal dam is an 83mhigh cfrd with a crest length of 605 m that is being built for irrigation and flood prevention in northwest turkey at the thracian peninsula. You can do stability modeling with slopew, seepage modeling with seepw, stress and deformation modeling with sigmaw and so on. This article discusses rockfill placement and compaction guidelines successfully used to construct stable engineered fill structures at mine sites, including some of the largest tailing dam structures in california, nevada, south dakota and washington. Brenner with respect to the design of dams and their safety. Spillway hydraulic assessments how bc hydro uses flow3d. The dam is situated in a narrow valley and founded on sedimentary rock of variable strength. Practices in constructing high rockfill dams on thick. Design and application of concrete faced rockfill dam. Concrete face rockfill dam compared to roller compacted concrete dam. I concrete face rockfill dam compared to roller compacted concrete dam a case study of dam. Stephaneericthivierge, martin dupuis, bernard boulanger.
The analysis of residual deformation and vibration frequency before and after failure indicated that aseismic performance of cfrd is superior to ecrd. Recent experience on design, construction and performance. Whats more, finite element groundwater seepage analysis modules are included in slide2, rs2, and rs3. Intended for dam engineers, this illustrated reference volume is also warmly recommended to other engineering professionals working on the design, construction, and operation of dams and related hydraulic structures. Analyze the stability of earth and embankment dams using the limit equilibrium and finite element methods with our comprehensive suite of dam analysis software. The permeability coefficient of a concrete slab rockfill dam cfrd was calculated in this paper on the basis of the equivalent quasicontinuum model for the percolation of crackintensive face. The main challenge in constructing a rockfill dam on thick overburden layers is the design and successful construction of an impervious system for the foundation, accounting for the distribution of the underlying soil and rock layers as well as their physical and engineering properties. Member of several boards of consultants for different projects under construction, mr. Based on the improved ga, a mathematical model was established for the design optimization of cfrd. Optimal design program of cfrd based on the improved ga. Research article, concrete faced rockfill dam, multi strategy particle swarm optimization, report by mathematical problems in engineering. A concrete face rockfill dam cfrd is a type of dam widely used in.
Proceedings of international symposium on concrete faced rockfill. Structural design measures for a 93 m high concrete. A general designation of a type of dam body filled with rockfils or gravels compacted in layers, and also with its face slab as a antiseepage system. Twelve chapters provide specialist information on concepts, desig. This consulting guide presents details and analyses of twentyeight large crfd dams. Cfrd utilizes dam cost as objective function and dam slope and geometries of the dam material partition as design variables.
Dam design and construction, reservoirs and balancing lakes. The concept of a rockfill dam with an impervious face dates from the california gold rush of the 1860s and 1870s 1. Investigation of the cracking of cfrd face plates sciencedirect. The application of mspso in the rockfill parameter inversion of cfrd. Therefore, there has been a constant need for the estimation model of construction duration.
Nov 22, 2017 the design of a dam wall with terrain strings to generate a merged model with contours, dam water volume taking into account any islands, earthworks volume, the dam floodline and exporting to. A bogota, colombia abstract the inherent features of concrete face rockfill dams and the tr end of building higher dams have been recently questioned by three recent. The design of this unique large dam in the new zealand context was a longterm collaboration of local dam design expertise and international experience that took the historic precedent based design approach for cfrd s and supplemented this with modern embankment design techniques for the highly seismic environment at the dam site. The calibrated flow3d model confirmed that the design flood could be safely passed without overtopping the spillway chute walls as long as all three radial gates are opened as prescribed in. Concrete face rockfill dams 1st edition paulo teixeira da. Flow3d is an industry leader in freesurface flow modeling, and is used by dam professionals to address a wide range of design problems for existing and proposed projects. However the design and construction of cfrds are based primarily on precedent and engineering judgments.
The application of mspso in the rockfill parameter. Dynamic inplane transversal normal stresses in the concrete face of. Design optimization of a concrete face rockfill dam by. Lianghekou dam,the tallest concreteface rockfill dam in the world with 295m high,will completed in 2021. Bentley s hydroelectric dam design solution enables design visualization for you to explore design alternatives and manage data across the entire project lifecycle. Geotechnical investigations for dam and reservoir sites youtube. Overtopping failure of a largescale artificial dam in taiwan feng and chen, 2012 part 2 surge duration.
Can someone help me to find out which software is better to design the structure dam. Your teams will benefit from improved dam systems coordination and analysis, which will result in the delivery of worldclass dam. Design of reinforced concrete lining of the tunnel pressure. Concrete face rockfill dams design, construction, and. Cfrd utilizes dam cost as objective function and dam slope and geometries of the dam material. Autodesk cfd computational fluid dynamics simulation software. Aug 19, 2008 the implications of movements caused by active or potentially active faults passing through the foundation of a large dam, and movements of blocks in the dam foundation caused by strong earthquakes at a fault close to a dam site, are discussed by m.
I would like to build on this a little with revit so that i could get all of these measurem. Cfrd international society hereby organized cfrd experts from relative countries for comprehensive summing up the experiences of constructions of world concrete face rockfill dam cfrd and studied the technical problems occurred recent years in the constructions of world high and very high cfrds, and presented the effective measures for overcoming them in may 2007 so as to meet the requirements for development of the world high cfrds. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. The construction process is divided into 26 steps and the impoundment process is divided into 30. It depends on what kind of dams you want to design. In addition, the cfrd design is flexible for topography, faster to construct and less costly than earthfill dams. Silvan dam and revisions to adapt for latest developments in high cfrd design and construction. Design of shuibuya dam shuibuya cfrd is located in p. The concrete faced rockfill dam cfrd has been increasingly used in recent. The construction of cfrd involves placing the highergrade rock at the dam core, and compacting them to their maximum strength. A study on concrete faced rockfill dams usq eprints. However the design and construction of cfrds are based primarily on precedent and engineering.
The design and development of cfrd dams, ha ve been based primarily on precedent and empiricism, however, th ese. Silvan dam and revisions to adapt for latest developments. This paper presents the main features and organisation of cadam, a computer program, freely available, that has been developed for the static and seismic stability evaluations of concrete gravity dams. A chronicle of modern rockfill dam design, including a description of current practice in cfrd design, is available, 4 as are explanations of the characteristics of rockfill behavior using specific cfrd cases.
This paper discusses the engineering geological investigations, engineering properties of the rock mass at the dam site, and construction materials for the dam embankment. I have been making 3d models of concrete dams for some time now in autocad but want to switch to revit. Seismic evaluation of narmashir, iran, concreteface rockfill dam. The dam is europes highest concretefaced rockfill dam cfrd, 700 m long and almost 200 m high where it is highest. In this paper it is tried to simulate the dam body and its foundation by abaqus fem software under plane. Concrete face rockfill dams presents the stateoftheart of dam design and construction.
Construction of the tallest rockfill dam in the world. Nonlinear software generally use only a global convergence. Because of the remarkable whipping effect in the high rockfill dam, the key parts of aseismic design is downstream slope near the dam top, where appropriate aseismic measures should be taken. Estimating approximate construction duration of cfrd in. Stresses and deformations of the concrete face rockfill dam are. Abstract the concretefaced rockfill dam cfrd is an important dam type in the selection of high dams to be constructed in western china, owing to its direct utilization of local materials, good adaptability. Practices in constructing high rockfill dams on thick overburden. Concrete faced rockfill dams cfrd have been widely used for multipurposes over the world. What is the best software to design the structure dam. It aims to develop a model for the estimation of the construction duration of a dam. A reinforced concrete slab is then constructed at the upstream face of the dam. Engineering and manufacturing mathematics building materials control systems dams earth dams analysis finite element method usage. Concrete face rockfill dams 1st edition paulo teixeira. Seismic responses of high concrete face rockfill dams.
Nowadays, concrete faced rockfill dam cfrd is preferred among dam. Concrete face rockfill dams design, construction, and performance. The application of mspso in the rockfill parameter inversion. This consulting guide presents details and analyses of twentyeight large crfd dams worldwide, including the highest dam. A case study on the postconstruction deformation of. Focus will be on the tools needed by usda for flood control dam rehabilitation and the transfer of technology from ars to the engineering community. Although these damages rarely jeopardize the dam safety, they cause large. A dam body filled mainly with gravels is also called as concrete face gravel dam.
Goals objectives to develop userfriendly software tools for watershed dam design and analysis. Introduction concrete face rockfill dams cfrd have a high shear resistance as their. Moreover, attention is paid to the plans for a cfrd dam over 300 meters high. You can do stability modeling with slopew, seepage modeling with seepw, stress and. In the earliest stages of the project design, consulting firm rsw inc contacted roctest for selecting appropriate. Nov 24, 2018 cfrd variant with lean rcc zone as a support for concrete face provides a great reduction of the cost and time of dam construction compared with the rockfill blastedtype dam. This calculation helped simplify the establishment of a finite element model and improve the efficiency of calculating the seepage of dams.
Dam design the effects of active faults international. Jul 16, 20 the general data presented in sections two and three gives an idea of the extreme diversity of the millions of very large or very small dams worldwide. Moreover, an inversion algorithm based on particle swarm. This paper explains how modern design techniques were employed to appraise the design challenges. Spillway design floodsdf is the largest flow that a given project is designed to pass safely. The implications of movements caused by active or potentially active faults passing through the foundation of a large dam, and movements of blocks in the dam foundation caused by strong earthquakes at a fault close to a dam site, are discussed by m. This study targets concretefaced rockfill dam cfrd, which is the most constructed type of dams in korea.
A design report, submitted with the application, should include an evaluation of the foundation conditions, the hydrologic and hydraulic design and a structural stability analysis of the dam. Russian engineers have been studying the world experience of cfrd design and possibility cfrd construction in the high seismicity regions of russia. Assessment of engineering geological design parameters for. The design flow is 15,110 m 3 s with a maximum probable flow of 15,915 m 3 s for a tr 10,000 years. To ensure compliance with modern standards, a number of upgrades are being implemented. Deformations of cfrd dams start occurring during the construction. For the earth dam, geostudio software is the best option. In fact, these type of dams have been built all over the world for almost 150 years. It will also explain how instrumentation deployed during construction was used to inform the final design of the dam. Concrete face rockfill dam compared to roller compacted concrete dam a case study of dam constructions in panama master of science thesis in the masters programme geo and water engineering tom karlsson and jonas tallberdepartment of civil and environmental engineering division of water and environmental technology.
This consulting guide presents details and analyses of twentyeight large crfd dams worldwide, including the highest dam in the world. Toe of dam is the junction of the downstream face of a dam and the natural ground surface, also referred to as downstream toe. The kangaroo creek concrete faced rockfill dam cfrd was constructed in the 1960s. This design provides the concrete slab as an impervious wall to prevent leakage and also a structure. This design provides the concrete slab as an impervious wall to prevent leakage and also a structure without concern for uplift pressure.
Nam ngum 2 dam, a large concrete face rockfill dam cfrd of 182 m height, is under construction and impounding is scheduled to start at beginning of april 2010. Estimating approximate construction duration of cfrd in the. Computation analysis of concrete face rockfill dam under static. Technical progress on researches for the safety of high. Technical problems requiring special attention in the design and construction. Cfrd international society foreword the concrete face rockfill dam cfrd has been constructed widely all over the world now its stability, taking full advantage of local excavated materials and. With rapid population growth and accelerating economic development, much of the worlds water which requires urgent attention to ensure sustainable use. Seismic cracking evolution for antiseepage face slabs in. Dams hydroelectric power projects are sensitive to threedimensional flow effects, and accurately predicting flow patterns is important for optimizing efficiency. In this chapter, chinese practices in constructing high earth and rockfill dams. Therefore, cfrd variant is to be considered, as a principal one in the final design. Duncanchang nonlinear elastic model is selected as the dam materials in abaqus, which is an nonlinear finite element analysis software.
For an earth dam the junction of the upstream face with the ground surface is called the upstream toe. The montesinho dam is located in the sabor river, which is in the montesinho natural reserve. Autodesk cfd software provides flexible fluid flow and thermal simulation tools with improved reliability and performance. Recent experience on design, construction and performance of cfrd dams. Calculation methods for the permeability coefficient of.
Comparing faced symmetrical hardfill and concretefaced. Concrete face rockfill dams cfrds are considered to be fundamentally safe, especially against leakage, and to be a lowcost alternative at many sites. Concrete face rockfill dam compared to roller compacted. The intuitive use by knowhow in rock blasting works led oftenly to the construction of timber face rockfill dams, to store water for the sluicing operations. The positive experience of asphalt concrete face dams on alluvial material and the adequate performance of the cfrd s plinth in nonconventional foundations from salvajina, which is partly on residual soils, and khao laem, which is on karst have made it acceptable to consider the design. The report should include calculations and be sufficiently detailed to accurately define the final design and proposed work as represented on the construction. The models are fairly unintelligent in autocad, but you can get length, width, volume, etc. A concreteface rockfill dam cfrd is a rockfill dam with concrete slabs on its upstream face. This manual presents fundamental principles underlying the design and construction of earth and rockfill dams. Analysis, design and behavior of concrete face rockfill dams cfrds 1. Safety of cfrds depends on the proper design, construction, and monitoring of. Guide for design and construction of concrete face. Wre page 2 of 5 principalincharge, carter lake dam new outlet works, co, northern water.