Kathmandu University, Department of Civil Engineering

Tutorial#2
Hydraulic Structures (CIEG 304)

Date of assignment: 7th April, 2021 Date of Submission: 30th April, 2021

Note:

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1. Explain the effect of an earthquake force on the dam? (hint: write about the
earthquake forces including effect in both vertical and horizontal direction)

2. Explain the USBR recommendation for the uplift force on the dam base?

3. Write down in short about forces act on the dam (hydrostatic pressure, silt pressure,
wave pressure, wind pressure and ice pressure)

4. What are the various cases and load combinations to be considered while designing
the gravity dam? (Hint: list separately both USBR recommendation and IS
6512:1984 load combination recommendation)

5. What are the modes of failure of the gravity dam? Explain in short all the modes i.e.
Overturning, Crushing, Tension and Sliding.

6. Show that the resultant force in a concrete dam should pass within the middle one
third of the base width in order to avoid the tension in the heel of the gravity dam.

7. Write down the effect of the tension crack on the dam?

Prepared By: Lecturer, Mahesh Raj Bhatt, Kathmandu University, Nepal. Email:mahesh.bhatt@ku.edu.np
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8. Derive the expression for the principal and shear stress on the gravity dam? (hint:
both toe and heel side)

9. What is an elementary profile of dam? Explain the stress developed in the elementary
profile of the dam.

10. What do you mean by the limiting height of the gravity dam? Derive the expression
for the limiting height.

11. List out the methods of the stability analysis of the gravity dam? Write down stepwise
procedure of the stability analysis of the gravity dam by gravity method? (hint: list
out the steps of both analytical and graphical method )

12. Briefly explain the major procedure for the design of a gravity dam? (hint: low dam
and high dam design brief procedure)

13. What are the types of galleries to be provided in gravity dam? Explain why galleries
are needed.

14. Explain about the remedy measure of cracking in concrete gravity dam?

15. Explain about the joints in the concrete gravity dam and recommend how water
seepage can be controlled in the dam upstream?

Prepared By: Lecturer, Mahesh Raj Bhatt, Kathmandu University, Nepal. Email:mahesh.bhatt@ku.edu.np
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