Seismic Performance of the San Pietro Dam

Abstract The paper focuses on the seismic performance of the San Pietro dam (located in Southern Italy) evaluated, with different levels of accuracy, through pseudo-static, simplified-displacement and dynamic 2D finite difference analyses. For critical mechanisms, detected through pseudo-static analyses, simplified displacement analyses were performed assessing the horizontal and vertical components of the expected permanent displacements. Dynamic analyses were carried out accounting for non-linear soil behavior under cyclic loading. The adopted input motions consist of several sets of accelerograms selected, from a worldwide database, assuming as a reference the seismicity of the area where the dam is located. The results of the analyses show a satisfactory behavior of the dam for the selected input motions.