Investigation of Seismic Performance of Concrete Gravity Dams using Pushover Analysis

The increasing need for clean water and energy resources for human societies has led them to optimize the old technologies with the best in research and studies to make the most of them. One of these inventions is dams, structures that are created on the rivers. In the past, the creation of dams was generally aimed at providing drinking water and irrigation of farms, but nowadays it is not only a source of water, but also electric energy. In many studies, dynamic analysis is used to assess the vulnerability and damage damages during an earthquake. Despite the precision of this method, there are many uncertainties in the analysis stages that make the study costly and prolonged. Therefore, using nonlinear static analysis method, researchers increased the speed of analysis and reduced costs. The purpose of this study is to investigate the seismic performance of concrete gravity dams using nonlinear static analysis (pushover analysis). For this purpose, load patterns used in the pushover analysis are applied in both directions upstream and downstream of the dam structure. Observations show that, apart from the rectangular load pattern, all load patterns used in this research can adequately correlate Detect the crack in the dam body correctly. The increasing need for clean water and energy resources for human societies has led them to optimize the old technologies with the best in research and studies to make the most of them. One of these inventions is dams, structures that are created on the rivers. In the past, the creation of dams was generally aimed at providing drinking water and irrigation of farms, but nowadays it is not only a source of water, but also electric energy. In many studies, dynamic analysis is used to assess the vulnerability and damage damages during an earthquake. Despite the precision of this method, there are many uncertainties in the analysis stages that make the study costly and prolonged. Therefore, using nonlinear static analysis method, researchers increased the speed of analysis and reduced costs. The purpose of this study is to investigate the seismic performance of concrete gravity dams using nonlinear static analysis (pushover analysis). For this purpose, load patterns used in the pushover analysis are applied in both directions upstream and downstream of the dam structure. Observations show that, apart from the rectangular load pattern, all load patterns used in this research can adequately correlate Detect the crack in the dam body correctly. The increasing need for clean water and energy resources for human societies has led them to optimize the old technologies with the best in research and studies to make the most of them. One of these inventions is dams, structures that are created on the rivers. In the past, the creation of dams was generally aimed at providing drinking water and irrigation of farms, but nowadays it is not only a source of water, but also electric energy. In many studies, dynamic analysis is used to assess the vulnerability and damage damages during an earthquake. Despite the precision of this method, there are many uncertainties in the analysis stages that make the study costly and prolonged. Therefore, using nonlinear static analysis method, researchers increased the speed of analysis and reduced costs. The purpose of this study is to investigate the seismic performance of concrete gravity dams using nonlinear static analysis (pushover analysis). For this purpose, load patterns used in the pushover analysis are applied in both directions upstream and downstream of the dam structure. Observations show that, apart from the rectangular load pattern, all load patterns used in this research can adequately correlate Detect the crack in the dam body correctly.