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Concrete-Dam Integrity

Results from numerical simulation of a concrete dam subjected to a selected earthquake loading strong enough to cause cracking in the dam. Plots show the distribution of induced fracture zones at 1.0 s. Colors represent the number and type of induced fractures at a calculation point:
blue = unfractured, orange = one tensile fracture, and red = two fractures (tensile and shear). [From Ofoegbu GI and B Dasgupta (2021). Analysis of concrete dam response to dynamic loading using fracture-based modeling. USSD 2021 Annual Conference, held online, May 2021. https://ussd.conferencespot.org/2021/pdf/2021a069/2021fl069]