Análises tridimensionais de barragens de enrocamento com face de concreto com objetivo de otimizar os critérios de projeto

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Concrete Face Rockfill Dams (CFRD) have been constructed with increasing frequency all around the world. However, design criteria still are mostly empirical and based on practical experience obtained during the construction of this type of dam. The use of numerical analyses is not yet a usual tool in the development and design of CFRD. Aiming to reduce the design empiricism, this research proposes a methodology to analyze the CFRD behavior and to design the structural concrete face, based on the following aspects: three-dimensional numerical analysis of all design phases (construction, reservoir filling and rapid drawdown); associated analysis of the concrete face and the rockfill dam mass; interface element to represent the contact between these structures; separated analysis of concrete face with plate elements over an elastic bases, using settlement coefficients calibrated from the numerical analysis during reservoir filling phase. The methodology was validated using Barra Grande Dam as a case study. In these analyses, the rockfill was simulated with the Modified Cam- Clay elastoplastic model, the concrete face with a linear elastic model and the interface represented by an elastic-perfectly plastic model with the Drucker-Prager failure criterion. The results highlight the influence of the construction process, imposed boundary conditions on the shoulders interface and the changes in shoulder slope on the whole dam behavior, resulting in an optimized concrete face design regarding the rate of steel reinforcement. Therefore, this research represents a contribution to CFRD design, based on a rational technical framework.

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barragem critério de projeto face de concreto geotecnica análise tridimensional enrrocamento modelo cam-clay modificado

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