Table 6 Displacement and stress at monitoring points of the dam.

From: The analysis of the progressive local failure process of the Longquan Reservoir dam based on the global-local dynamic strength reduction method

Monitoring points

Vertical Displacement/cm

Horizontal Displacement/cm

Mises Stress/Pa

Node 3

Node 4

Node 6

Node 8

Node 3

Node 4

Node 6

Node 8

Natural State

−41.3

−50.1

6.24

5

17,088

36,580

33,015

34,229

First Reduction

−47.5

−65.9

13.6

8.2

15,384

30,273

33,004

29,048

Second Reduction

−49.5

−99.9

57.9

10.8

16,465

20,384

21,614

23,867

Third Reduction

−47.8

−194.6

196.7

42.4

14,293

11,155

16,154

15,809

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