Centrifugal model tests on danger incubation and catastrophic process of inclined wall dams under drought-flood abrupt alternation

YE Wei; MA Fuheng; HU Jiang; LI Ziyang; GU Xingwen

doi:10.11779/CJGE20220887

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Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering > 2023 > 45(10): 2100-2109. > DOI: 10.11779/CJGE20220887

YE Wei, MA Fuheng, HU Jiang, LI Ziyang, GU Xingwen. Centrifugal model tests on danger incubation and catastrophic process of inclined wall dams under drought-flood abrupt alternation[J]. Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 2023, 45(10): 2100-2109. DOI: 10.11779/CJGE20220887

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Centrifugal model tests on danger incubation and catastrophic process of inclined wall dams under drought-flood abrupt alternation

YE Wei^1,,
MA Fuheng^{1, 3},
HU Jiang¹,
LI Ziyang¹,
GU Xingwen²

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Dam Safety and Management Department, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, Nanjing 210029, China
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Geotechnical Engineering Department, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, Nanjing 210024, China
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The National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention, Nanjing 210029, China

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Received Date: July 17, 2022
Available Online: October 16, 2023

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The extreme rainstorm after long-term and high-intensity drought will lead to the drought-flood abrupt alternation (DFAA). In order to explore the disaster mechanism of the upstream clay impervious earth rock dams under DFAA, based on the soil sample tests, the key factors affecting the expansion of shrinkage cracks are studied, and the initiation, expansion and evolution process of shrinkage cracks at different stages are analyzed. Through the centrifugal model tests, the evolution behaviors from clay impervious body defects to engineering failures under DFAA are clarified. The results show that although the high initial water content of soil can limit the occurrence of dry shrinkage cracks, it will also cause high hydraulic gradient in the soil after the occurrence of cracks, thus accelerating the development of cracks. During the first stage of DFAA, the drought process significantly reduces the permeability of soil matrix, but the shrinkage cracks caused by drought reduce the effective seepage diameter of clay impervious core and weaken its impervious performance. The extreme rainfall at the second stage causes the rapid growth of the reservoir water level, which leads to the hydraulic fracturing of the clay impervious core with cracks. The cracks penetrate the impervious core, making it completely lose its anti-seepage performance. The test results clarify the disaster-causing path of DFAA: from the change of the material performance to the danger of crack incubation to the rainfall triggered disasters.
- drought-flood abrupt alternation,
- crack evolution,
- danger incubation,
- hydraulic fracturing,
- catastrophic path

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