Stochastic Boundary Element Analysis of Concrete Gravity Dam

IntroductionTo analyze the structural reliability of structures,in particular,complex or large projects,therandom stress- strain fields and the reliability mustbe determined by numerical methods.Among theavailable numerical methods,the stochastic finiteelement method (SFEM) 1] and the stochasticboundary element method (SBEM ) 2 6] arepowerful tools for these analyses.　 The approaches to structural reliability analysismainly include numerical simulation and linearapproximation.Numerical …

Stochastic Boundary Element Analysis of Concrete Gravity Dam

Stochastic boundary integral equations for analyzing large structures are obtained from the partial derivatives of basic random variables. A stochastic boundary element method based on the equations is developed to solve engineering problems of gravity dams using random factors including material parameters of the dam body and the foundation, the water level in the upper reaches, the anti-slide friction coefficient of the dam base, etc. A numerical example shows that the stochastic boundary element method presented in this paper to calculate the reliability index of large construction projects such as a large concrete gravity dam has the advantages of less input data and more precise computational results.