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Computation of membrane shapes and analysis of arch dams

✍ Scribed by V.Dias da Silva; E.N.B.S. Júlio

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
581 KB
Volume
64
Category
Article
ISSN
0045-7949

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✦ Synopsis

The present paper describes numerical techniques for the computational simulation of the membrane method for shape determination of arch dams and subsequent stress analysis of the dam shell. The method is based on the nonlinear computation of membrane deformation using the finite-element method. Techniques are presented for the automatic mesh generation for the membrane and for the shell problems. The presented software package allows the computational analysis of all steps from the shape determination to the stress analysis. Examples are included.

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