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Water pressures on dams during earthquakes

Westergaard, Harold M.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, New York, Paper 1835, 1933, pdf (4.6 mb) (400/A483/v.98/1933)

Formulas are derived for the changes in water pressures during an earthquake for a straight dam with a vertical upstream face. The vibrations in the earthquake are assumed horizontal in a direction perpendicular to the dam. It is found that the pressures are the same as if a certain body of water were forced to move back and forth with the dam while the remainder of the reservoir is left inactive. The influence of the dynamic action of the water is found to be neither excessively large nor negligible. A discussion section accompanies the paper.

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