| Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 101, 2017
Sriwijaya International Conference on Engineering, Science and Technology (SICEST 2016)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 05007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Green Constructions | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201710105007 | |
| Published online | 09 March 2017 | |
Influence of pore water pressure to seepage and stability of embankment dam (case study of Sermo Dam Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University, 50275 Semarang, Indonesia
* Corresponding author: undayanicita@yahoo.com
Today, water requirements are not analogously with its availability. Therefore, build water reservoir dam is one of the simple concepts for fulfilling water requirements. Embankment dam is one of the most popular dam build in Indonesia. Stability of embankment dam should be taken into account to evaluate the safety condition in retaining water. Safety against seepage is one of the most important steps for checking the possibility of failure of embankment dam. PLAXIS is alternative software that can be used for evaluating safety of embankment dam due to seepage condition. This paper explains the study of pore water pressure and seepage effects against Sermo Dam safety using PLAXIS and compares it with field measurement data from piezometer and V-Notch monitoring. The study was conducted during dam operational conditions. The analysis was carried out using Mohr-Coulomb model to calculate discharge of seepage and settlement. The value of pore water pressures within the model, upstream and downstream, positions are then reviewed with the real dam. The results of model analysis shows that the more higher water level within the dam reservoir the more higher pore water pressure will be happened that affects in increasing discharge of seepage and settlement of dam.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.