Publication year: 2011 Source: Computers and Geotechnics, Volume 38, Issue 7, November 2011, Pages 905-916 Yalin Arici The primary goal of this study was to examine the cracking behavior of the face plate of a CFRD over its life cycle. Analyses of the construction stage, impounding, long-term deformation and earthquake loading were conducted in sequential phases using a 2-D plane-strain model with the appropriate nonlinear constitutive relationships for the dam constituents.
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Investigation of the cracking of CFRD face plates