Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 1966 · 12 citations · 5 references
EngineeringCivil EngineeringStructural DynamicsStructural EngineeringVibrationDam EngineeringDam HydraulicsDamped VibrationForced VibrationLateral VibrationStructural VibrationHydraulic VibrationSubstructure Mode ShapesVibration LoadsVibration Mode ShapesVibrational Frequencies
Abstract An earth dam was excited into vibrations, in the upstream-downstream direction, by four rotating eccentric-mass vibration generators which were operated on the crest. Natural frequencies, mode shapes, and equivalent viscous modal damping constants of the dam were revealed by the forced vibrations. A theoretical analysis of the dam, based on consideration of shearing deformations only, shows moderately good agreement with the behavior which was observed at the lower frequencies.
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