Selecting Analytic Tools for Concrete Dams Address Key Events Along Potential Failure Mode Paths

149 Pages·2014·5.74 MB·English

Selecting Analytic Tools for Concrete
Dams Address Key Events Along
Potential Failure Mode Paths
FEMA P-1016 / July 2014
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Selecting Analytic Tools for Concrete
Dams to Address Key Events along
Potential Failure Mode Paths

Federal Emergency Management Agency

July 2014

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

2D two-dimensional
3D three-dimensional

ACI American Concrete Institute

DVD digital versatile disc

FEM finite element method
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
ft feet

g acceleration in relation to gravity (1 g = 32.2 ft/s2)
GT-STRUDL structural design and analysis software
ICODS Interagency Committee on Dam Safety

kip 1,000 pounds
kip/ft3 1,000 pounds per cubic foot
kip-ft 1,000 pound-feet

lb/ft2 pounds per square foot
lb/ft3 pounds per cubic foot
lb/in2 pounds per square inch

NDSRB National Dam Safety Review Board

PDF portable document format

TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

USACE United States Army Corps of Engineers

CONVERSION FACTORS

To the International System of Units (SI) (Metric)

Pound-foot measurements in this document can be converted to SI measurements by multiplying
by the following factors:

Multiply By To obtain
acre-feet 1233.489 cubic meters
cubic feet 0.028317 cubic meters
cubic feet per second 0.028317 cubic meters per second
cubic inches 16.38706 cubic centimeters
degrees Fahrenheit (°F-32)/1.8 degrees Celsius
feet 0.304800 meters
feet per second 0.304800 meters per second
gallons 0.003785 cubic meters
gallons 3.785412 liters
gallons per minute 0.000063 cubic meters per second
gallons per minute 0.063090 liters per second
inches 2.540000 centimeters
miles 1.609344 kilometers
pounds 0.453592 kilograms
pounds per cubic foot 16.01846 kilograms per cubic meter
pounds per square foot 4.882428 kilograms per square meter
pounds per square inch 6.894757 kilopascals
pounds per square inch 6894.757 pascals
square feet 0.092903 square meters
square inches 6.451600 square centimeters

STANDARDS

Bureau of Reclamation

State-of-Practice for the Non-Linear Structural Analysis of Concrete Dams at the Bureau of
Reclamation, January 2006

Design of Small Dams, Denver, Colorado, Third Edition, 1987

Design of Gravity Dams, Denver, Colorado, 1976

Design of Arch Dams, Denver, Colorado, 1977

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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

FERC Engineering Guidelines for the Evaluation of Hydropower Projects

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http://www.ferc.gov/industries/hydropower/safety/guidelines.asp
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

EM 1110-2-1612 Ice Engineering, October 2002

EM 1110-2-2100 Stability Analysis of Concrete Structures, December 2005.

EM 1110-2-2104 Strength Design for Reinforced—Concrete Hydraulic
Structures, August 2003

EM 1110-2-2200 Gravity Dam Design, June 1995

EM 1110-2-2201 Arch Dam Design, May 1994

EM 1110-2-6050 Response Spectra and Seismic Analysis for Concrete Hydraulic
Structures, June 1999

EM 1110-2-6051 Engineering and Design—Time-History Dynamic Analysis of
Concrete Hydraulic Structures, December 2003

EM 1110-2-6053 Engineering and Design—Earthquake Design and Evaluation of Concrete
Hydraulic Structures, May 2007

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