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Geologic-engineering and geomechanical models of the rock mass in the bed of the dam at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP

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The principles, procedures, and results of construction of a detailed three-dimensional geologic-engineering model of the rock mass in the bed of the arch-gravity dam at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, and also methods of transforming this model into individual geomechanical models of the mass under investigation — models of the elastic, deformation, and strength properties, which are used in performing a series of check analyses of the stress-strain state of the “dam-bed-reservoir” system and evaluating the stability of the dam at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP are discussed.

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    A. I. Savich, M. M. Il’in, V. P. Elkin, V. I. Rechitskii & A. B. Basova

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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel’stvo, No. 1, January 2013, pp. 16 – 29.

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Savich, A.I., Il’in, M.M., Elkin, V.P. et al. Geologic-engineering and geomechanical models of the rock mass in the bed of the dam at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP. Power Technol Eng 47, 89–101 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10749-013-0404-7

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