Preliminary research on cycloid as a line type of the arch dam

摘要

Currently, there are a wide range of line types in the field of arch dam designing and construction, and each of them may have their own strength and weakness disparately. A trade-off between the size, stress, as well as the construction cost and complex- ity of the dam needs to be made in order to arrive at a new solution called the cycloid arch dam. Through redevelopment of VBA us- ing AutoCAD, the arch ring and the center of the arch line have been designed. Also, the stress analysis on parabola and cycloid have been done, which provides a theoretical principle that the cycloid could be regarded as a new line type of the arch dam.