Assignment on concrete dam design and analysis (PG 2013,HyEng)

1. What do you understand by reservoir planning and why do we need it?

2. How do you classify dams based on the material of construction and load resistance
mechanism? Elaborate on the relative advantage of gravity dam and arch dams
3. Define the following terms with the help of sketch, taking gravity dam as an example
a. Length , width of a dam
b. Hydraulic height, structural height
c. grout curtain and consolidation grouting
d. Inspection, Drainage and Entrance gallery
4. What are the stresses related to water and how does they interfere with the stability of dam?
5. For an overflow section of a dam with operation head (Ho)=3m, an approach velocity of 2m/s,
where the height of the spillway is 20m from the bed, determine the horizontal force due to
water pressure on the u/s face and the dynamic force on the downstream end of the spillway
(curved surface with radius of curvature 5m, internal angle is 60 o). Take: coefficient of discharge
of the spill way =2., the inflection point on the downstream face starts at 4m above the toe
bed/datum.
6. In a gravity dam with height of 120m, 105m bottom width, with the downstream face starts
sloping at 10m below the crest, considering a 7m crest width, 5m free board. The drainage
gallery is located 10m from the upstream face hypothetical section. If there area of the
project( the dam site ) is in seismic zone IV, use proper method to determine the seismic
coefficient and determine;
a. the stress distribution at the base of the dam under full reservoir and empty reservoir
condition.
b. Determine the safety of the dam with respect to overturning, sliding and material
failure
c. determine the crack length if any
7. Design a concrete gravity dam of height 130m , with top crest width 8m sloping d/s face starts at
7m below the crest, the free board is 3m. Use (a) strip/ multistage and (b) single stage methods
for designing
8. An 80m high buttress dam of the deck type has a buttress spacing of 8m and the inclination of
the u/s face is 40o. Determine the shape of the buttress and the required thickness. Assume that
there is no free bored and the joint between the deck and buttress are frictionless. Take the
allowable stress in concrete as 5MPa, and the unit weight of concrete as 24kN/m3 and the
specific unit weight of the water is 10kN/m3. The minimum thickness is 1.5m.
9. Design a constant angle arch dam having 80m width at the bottom and 200m at a height of 80m,
assume the allowable stress of the abutment is 4.5MPa

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