On Dec. 24, 2015, MWR Department of International Cooperation, Science and Technology (DICST) organized an acceptance meeting in Beijing to assess the MWR public-good research project “Key Technology of Behavior Diagnosis and Hazard Assessment of Concrete Dam Fissures” undertaken by NHRI. The expert panel consisted of 9 experts with MWR, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute, Pearl River Scientific Research Institute, MWR Development Research Center and Bureau of Comprehensive Development. Prof. QIAO Shishan, former counsel of DICST acted as the panel leader. Relevant project team members with NHRI Department of Scientific Research Management and Department of Materials and Structure, MWR Budget Execution Center and Hohai University were present at the meeting.
Focusing on the research of behavior diagnosis and hazard assessment of concrete dam fissures, methods of field tests, lab experiments, in-situ monitoring, and theoretic and numerical analysis were adopted by the project for such studies as comprehensive nondestructive detection and behavior identification methods of concrete dam fissures, analytic theory of cracking process, structural hazard assessment theory and method, hazard assessment method and simulation platform of fissures in regard to the overall service of concrete dams, etc. The research findings of the project were successfully applied in water projects, such as the First-Grade Jinping Project, Longyangxia Project, Xiaowan Project, Wudu Project, etc., which provided important technical support for behavior diagnosis and hazard assessment of concrete dam fissures.
During the implementation of the project, 9 national invention patents and 1 utility model patent were approved, 2 software copyrights obtained, 3 academic monographs published, 79 papers labelled project funding published, among which 15 were SCI collected and 30 EI collected. Relevant findings were included in 3 foreign or domestic industrial regulations, and a number of young talents cultivated via this project.
After listening to the research results report made by Prof. HU Shaowei, project leader, the expert panel unanimously agreed that the project had reached the expected research targets with comprehensively overfulfilled research tasks and abundant research results.