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Hydrodynamic Pressures on Dams During Earthquakes

Chopra, Anil K.

UCB/SESM-1966/02, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1966-04, 48 pages (540/C49/1966)

The intensity, distribution and frequency characteristics of hydrodynamic pressures acting on dams during earthquakes are discussed and an analysis of the pressures generated by the vertical as well as the horizontal components of earthquake accelerations is made.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-66-02a.pdf (3 MB)