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Concrete dam stability

© timsta95, 2021

Stability analyses of buttress dams and gravity dams, adapted for Norway and NVE's guidelines

IMPORTANT: ALTHOUGH TESTED AND USED FOR REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS, THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, SEE LICENSE FILE (MIT LICENSE)

The creation and maintenance of this package is a solely private initiative

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1. About the project

The goal of the project is to provide a flexible and reliable tool for stability analyses of concrete dams. Calculations can be documented as PDF report including graphic representations of static forces. Furthermore, the GitHub repository provides tools for 3D visualisations of results with Autodesk Civil 3D Dynamo (proprietary software).

Safety factors and procedures are adapted to the requirements of the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE). The evaluated modes of failure are:

• sliding
• overturning

For usage outside of Norway, safety factors can be changed.

2. How to get started

The package can be installed from PyPI with

pip install stabilipy

Examples for a dam setup, export of results to Dynamo and creating a report can be found in the tests folder of the GitHub repository.

3. Support and project maintenance

The package is under active development. The author of the package can be contacted via GitHub or e-mail.

Contribution is encouraged

4. To do

• add documentation
• add tests
• add downstream water table
• add cohesion
• add _repr_ and _add_ methods where useful
• bug hunt