AMBO UNIVERSITY

HACHALU HUNDESSA CAMPUS

DEPARTMENT OF HYDRAULIC AND WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING

Individual Assignment of Hydraulic structure -I for Civil 4th year students (Cep).

Max. Mark Allotted: 20% Date of given: 15-8-2015 E.C

Deadline: 29-8-2015 E.C

 Do the following questions by showing all necessary steps!

Q1.Design the non-overflow section of gravity dam with the following data for an extreme
loading condition(10%)

 R.L of deepest foundation level 100m

 R.L of roadway at the top of the dam is 161m
 full reservoir level 152m
 Design flood level 155m
 Maximum tail water level 106.9m
 Minimum tail water level 100m
 Maximum deposited silt level on the u/s 105.3m
 Location of center drainage gallery form u/s face of dam 7m
 Roadway width at the top 6.1m
 Downstream vertical face up to El.154.28m
 Upstream face is vertical
 Downstream face of the 0.9 horizontal to 1.0 vertical
 Dry density of silt 130 kg/m3
 Unit weight of concrete 25 kN/m3
 Safe bearing capacity 162 kN/m2
 Shearing resistance of concrete ( average) 2060 kN/m2
 Shearing resistance of foundation ( average) 1300 kN/m2
 Minimum allowable shear friction factor under
 Normal loading=5.0
 Extreme loading=4.0
 Maximum coefficient of sliding under normal loading =0.75
 Horizontal seismic coefficient=0.2
 Vertical seismic coefficient =0.1
 Fetch distance 18km
 Average wind speed 25 m/
Q2.Depend on the following given figure of a gravity dam shown (10%):
1.Compute principal stress for ususal loading and vertical stress for extreme loading at heel and
toe of the base of the dam.
2. Determine factors of safety against overturning and sliding as well as shear friction factors
of safety when reservoir is full and empty for usual loading and extereme loading ( with drains
inoperative conditions.
 consider only download earth quake acceleration for extreme loading conditions.
 sediemet is deposited to a height of 15m in the reservoir.Other data are as follows
coefficientof shear friction 0.3 (usual loading).
0.65(extreme loading)
 Shear strength at concrete rock-contact( C=120x 104 N/m2
 Weight density of concrete=2.3 x10 4N/m2

Notice!

Copying from each other is prohibited and will deduct up to 5% of points earned
Attempt all the questions carefully and show its drawing in a clear way
If you did not submit it on the given time, I will reduce 2% from the total of your
result!
any missing data you can reasonably accepted.