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Seismic stability and failure process analysis of earth-filled dam

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Earthquake is one of the primary influence factors for the stability and safety of the earth-filled dam. An efficient way for the seismic stability and failure process analysis of the earth-filled dam is proposed in this paper. In this study, taking the dynamic mechanical behavior of soil and the ground motion characteristics into account, the seismic stability, and failure process of a two-dimensional earth-filled dam is analyzed via the explicit finite element method. A dynamic visco-elasto-plastic constituted model for soil is established and written in FORTRAN as a user subroutine of the finite element method code ABAQUS. The seismic response, residual deformation, and failure process of the earth-filled dam under natural earthquake conditions are analyzed using the dynamic visco-elasto-plastic constituted model and the explicit finite element method. Moreover, the influence of the ground motion characteristics on the seismic stability of the earth-filled dam is analyzed via the specified elastic response acceleration spectrum. The analysis results of this paper suggest that the seismic stability and the progressive failure process analysis of the earth-filled dam under the seismic condition can be analyzed efficiently by explicit finite element method. The dynamic mechanical behavior of soil and the ground motion characteristics are both critical influence factors for the seismic stability analysis of the earth-filled dam. The research work of this study is helpful for the analysis of the failure process of the earth-filled dam collapse.

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The research described in this paper was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41672255, 51879212, 51979225), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities Project (No. 300102268202). The first author of the paper is grateful to the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) for providing a scholarship (CSC No. 201808615023) to conduct the research described in this paper at Colorado School of Mines.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Eco-hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, 710048, China

    Zongyuan Ma & Faning Dang

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China

    Hongjian Liao

  3. College of Geological Engineering and Geomatics, Chang’an University, Xi’an, 710064, China

    Yuxiang Cheng

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Ma, Z., Dang, F., Liao, H. et al. Seismic stability and failure process analysis of earth-filled dam. Arab J Geosci 13, 827 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-020-05851-4

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