Novel Approach to approximation-based Design of Gravity DAM on Staad Pro Software

This work present a review of the design and stability analysis of lower dam a concrete gravity dam situated. Through, the demanding years, it has been observed that failures of dams due to many factor are common. So it is the essential to analysis the dam against all its modes of failures, forces acting on it, uncontrollable disasters such as earthquake, etc. for this, the preliminary data of the dam required for design, such dimensions, base width, crest width, etc. was collected through the inspection engineer. On the basic collected data the elementary profile and practical profile of dam was estimated. Further all major and the minor force forces acting on dam were calculated, stability analysis of designed dam against all modes of failure and for various load combinations was carried out in STAAD PRO software and was checked permissible limits.