Question: Consider the concrete gravity dam shown in Figure 1 . The dam has an out of plane dimension of 5 5 m . You have

Consider the concrete gravity dam shown in Figure 1. The dam has an out of plane dimension of 55m. You have been hired to conduct steady state seepage analysis on this dam using hand calculations as well as using the commercial software SEEP/W. You are to determine the following: 1) The daily flow of water under the dam without the cutoff wall using hand calculations, and separately using SEEP/W simulation. 2) The depth of the cutoff wall required to reduce the daily flow volume under the dam by x %(see Table 1 for value of x ) using SEEP/W simulation. 3) The uplift pressure on the base of the dam without the cutoff wall, based on the flow net and SEEP/W model from step 1.4) The uplift pressure on the base of the dam, after installation of the cutoff wall to the depth determined in step 2, both using SEEP/W, and using flow net hand calculations.

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