Research on Method of Dynamic Stability Analysis for Slopes of Earth and Rockfill Dam Basing on the P-Z Model

Abstract

According to the problems in dynamic stability analysis for slopes of earth and rockfill dam, the P-Z constitutive model, which is a kind of the multi-mechanism plastic model based on generalized plasticity, is introduced in the paper. Strength reduction factors of P-Z model are derived and verified, and based on them a new kind of method of dam slopes dynamic stability is put forward. For the method, the dynamic stability of dam slopes is judged by dynamic displacement time history and post-earthquake permanent displacement. The results show that local instability of dam slopes and variation features of dynamic response are obtained by the method, which is more reasonable.

Keywords

• dynamic stability analysis
• local instability
• P-Z constitutive model
• strength reduction FEM