Apresentaςão de uma Metodologia para Estudar a Influência de Chuvas Abundantes e Duradouras sobre a Estabilidade de Pequenas Barragens de Terra

Abstract

This work wants to present the study of the influence of heavy and steady rains on the stability of small earth dams. For that purpose, a finite element program is used to simulate the hidrodinamic conditions which mayoccur inside the earth dambody under the heavy rains effects.
These first results are used as input data in a slope stability program. Values of the safety factors against sliding calculated under the heavy rains conditions and without them are compared.