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A REVIEW ON ANALYSIS OF SEEPAGE IN ZONED EARTH DAMS

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Last updated: 13 Dec 2022

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Zoned earth dam
Seepage control
Phreatic line behavior
A REVIEW ON ANALYSIS OF SEEPAGE IN ZONED EARTH DAMS
2nd International Conference on Civil Engineering: Recent Applications and Future Challenges
Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

Abstract

In the conditions of severe climatic changes that are sweeping the world now, causing many problems, of which high surface water levels, torrential rains and floods are among the most dangerous phenomena. Since dams are the most engineering and structural protection means that engineers resort to, to protect against these dangers in such circumstances, not to mention the other important uses of dams such as storing water for irrigation purposes, generating electricity, feeding the underground reservoir, or diverting flow paths for any engineering purpose. Dams are usually classified on the basis of several considerations, including solid dams of different types, and flexible dams. Flexible dams, which are sometimes called earth dams, are of a special nature as they consist mainly of loose materials of a special porous nature and different ratios of interspaces that allow water to pass through them and penetrate the dam body in different proportions, which, if not prevented or avoided, may lead to the collapse of the dam body. In the present study a numerical analysis of seepage through zoned earthen dams is introduced, as they are the most popular type of flexible dams, to clarify the behavior of the streamlines of the seepage water through the body of such type of dams with different types of used soil of filling materials. Decreasing the relative permeability coefficient between the inner and transition zones up to 0.001 caused a significant decrease in the different seepage properties, after that, the effect was minor.

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Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

Keywords

Zoned earth dam, Seepage control, Phreatic line behavior

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First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Mostafa

Affiliation

Hydraulic Structure Engineering, College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, China

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Shen

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Zhenzhong

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Hydraulic Structure Engineering, College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, China

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Volume

ICCE2021 Vol. 2

Issue Date

1 Jan 2021

Publish Date

19 Dec 2021

Page Start

137

Page End

146

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https://icce2021.conferences.ekb.eg/article_1212.html

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Conference

Publication Title

2nd International Conference on Civil Engineering: Recent Applications and Future Challenges

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https://icce2021.conferences.ekb.eg/

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en

Created At

13 Dec 2022