Experimental Centrifuge Study of the Effects of Valley Topography on the Behavior of a Concrete Face Rockfill Dam

Figure 16

The distribution of stress on the slab before and after cracking in both types of valley topography models: (a) at 500–600 s in the “U”-type model, (b) at 1,800–2,000 s in the “U”-type model, and (c) at 500–600 s in the “V”-type model.

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