Featuring the Future Webinar: Influence of repeated heavy vehicle loads on the damage to the core of embankment dams

Embankment dams are not specifically designed for heavy vehicle traffic on their crests. Nevertheless, the demand for such use is growing, particularly from electricity producers, mining, and forestry industries. Allowing transit on the dam crests would ensure accessibility to the structures and surrounding territories. Progressive damage associated with vehicle traffic is likely to affect dyke and dam performance and therefore raises certain concerns among dam owners and operators. Practical tools and experimental data would be beneficial to the managers to make informed decisions, while contributing to increase the actual knowledge and to improve the understanding of the dam's mechanical response when subjected to passing of heavy vehicles.

Expected outcome for participants:

• Review of current knowledge on the subject
• Project methodology
• Quantification of the damages associated with the passage of heavy vehicles on the crest of embankment dams using simple inputs
• Establishment of a limit criteria to determine whether the passage of vehicles is acceptable or not
• Practical application: Proposition of an analysis method to ensure long-term performance, management, and safety of dams
  
  

Date: Friday, March 22, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET

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