Abstract
There are several themes in the mechanical behavior of a rock-fill dam. They are the stress concentration at the filter zone, the drop of the stress at the core zone, the highly sophisticated analysis method of the earthquake resistance of a rock-fill dam, and the new design method of a concrete-faced rock-fill dam (CFRD). In this study the stresses and strain behavior observed at the 4 rock-fill dams were compared with each other and analyzed from an overall viewpoint. The authors believe that the present investigation could provide useful information to dam design method and sophisticated analyses of dam body behavior.
