CESARE'24

Thermal-Structural Modeling and Temperature Control of RCC Gravity Dam A Parametric Study

Not scheduled

20m

Speakers

Prof. Abdallah Husein Malkawi (Fahad Bin Sultan University)Dr Dima Husein Malkawi (German Jordanian University)

Description

A Parametric study is carried out in this research to study the temperature and thermal stresses distributions in Roller Compacted Concreter (RCC) dams. The RCC placement temperature, the Modulus of Elasticity, tensile strain capacity, placement schedule of RCC layers, number of layers, and thickness of each layer will all be considered in the analysis.
The Metolong Dam Project in South Africa State of Lesotho is used in this research as a case study. The well-known computer codes namely ANSYS is used. The sensitivity of each one of the parameters listed above is investigated, and the results are presented in the form of tables and graphs. Conclusions are drawn from this study for a better understanding of the effect of each parameter on the temperature distribution and thermal stresses in the RCC dams.