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  • Open Access
4 Citations
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A New Prediction Model of Dam Deformation and Successful Application

  • Shuangping Li,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Meng Yang,
  • Senlin Li and
  • Zuqiang Liu

In most dam deformation monitoring practices, some single-point models do not consider the spatial correlation, and the traditional regression models do not consider the nonlinear relationship between the environmental quantity and the deformation qu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,161 Views
28 Pages

IEALL: Dam Deformation Prediction Model Based on Combination Model Method

  • Guoyan Xu,
  • Yuwei Lu,
  • Zixu Jing,
  • Chunyan Wu and
  • Qirui Zhang

20 April 2023

The accuracy of dam deformation prediction is a key issue that needs to be addressed due to the many factors that influence dam deformation. In this paper, a dam deformation prediction model based on IEALL (IGWO-EEMD-ARIMA-LSTM-LSTM) is proposed for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,350 Views
20 Pages

Exploration of Multi-Scale Reconstruction Framework in Dam Deformation Prediction

  • Rongyao Yuan,
  • Chao Su,
  • Enhua Cao,
  • Shaopei Hu and
  • Heng Zhang

9 August 2021

Affected by various complex factors, dam deformation monitoring data usually reflect volatility and non-linear characteristics, and traditional prediction models are difficult to accurately capture the complex laws of dam deformation. A multi-scale d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,357 Views
18 Pages

Automatic Concrete Dam Deformation Prediction Model Based on TPE-STL-LSTM

  • Sihan Song,
  • Qiujing Zhou,
  • Tao Zhang and
  • Yintao Hu

31 May 2023

Concrete dam deformation prediction is important for assessing the safety of dams. A TPE-STL-LSTM deformation prediction model for concrete dams is established by introducing the TPE algorithm based on the decomposition–prediction model. Taking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,795 Views
15 Pages

Concrete Dam Deformation Prediction Model Research Based on SSA–LSTM

  • Jiedeerbieke Madiniyeti,
  • Yang Chao,
  • Tongchun Li,
  • Huijun Qi and
  • Fei Wang

21 June 2023

In the context of dam deformation monitoring, the prediction task is essentially a time series prediction problem that involves non-stationarity and complex influencing factors. To enhance the accuracy of predictions and address the challenges posed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,486 Views
18 Pages

Dam Deformation Monitoring Model Based on Deep Learning and Split Conformal Quantile Prediction

  • Yan Su,
  • Jiayuan Fu,
  • Weiwei Lin,
  • Chuan Lin,
  • Xiaohe Lai and
  • Xiudong Xie

13 February 2025

The construction of an interval prediction model capable of explaining deformation uncertainties is crucial for the long-term safe operation of dams. High effective coverage and narrow interval coverage widths are two key benchmarks to ensure that th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,690 Views
19 Pages

Research on Dam Deformation Prediction Model Based on Optimized SVM

  • Yin Xing,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Saipeng Huang,
  • Peng Wang and
  • Yunfei Xiang

13 September 2022

Although constructing a dam can bring significant economic and social benefits to a region, it can be catastrophic for the population living downstream when it breaks. Given the dynamic and nonlinear characteristics of dam deformation, the traditiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
3,717 Views
24 Pages

A Novel Hybrid Decomposition—Ensemble Prediction Model for Dam Deformation

  • Enhua Cao,
  • Tengfei Bao,
  • Chongshi Gu,
  • Hui Li,
  • Yongtao Liu and
  • Shaopei Hu

17 August 2020

Accurate and reliable prediction of dam deformation (DD) is of great significance to the safe and stable operation of dams. In order to deal with the fluctuation characteristics in DD for more accurate prediction results, a new hybrid model based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,924 Views
21 Pages

19 July 2021

An accurate dam deformation prediction model is vital to a dam safety monitoring system, as it helps assess and manage dam risks. Most traditional dam deformation prediction algorithms ignore the interpretation and evaluation of variables and lack qu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,487 Views
17 Pages

24 July 2023

The construction of a reasonable and reliable deformation prediction model is of great practical significance for dam safety assessment and risk decision-making. Traditional dam deformation prediction models are susceptible to interference from redun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
2,676 Views
19 Pages

17 November 2022

Deformation prediction is an important part of concrete dam safety monitoring. In recent years, the random forest (RF) algorithm has attracted more and more attention in the field of dam safety monitoring because of its fast speed and strong generali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,726 Views
25 Pages

Dam Deformation Prediction Model Based on Multi-Scale Adaptive Kernel Ensemble

  • Bin Zhou,
  • Zixuan Wang,
  • Shuyan Fu,
  • Dehui Chen,
  • Tao Yin,
  • Lanlan Gao,
  • Dingzhu Zhao and
  • Bin Ou

21 June 2024

Aiming at the noise and nonlinear characteristics existing in the deformation monitoring data of concrete dams, this paper proposes a dam deformation prediction model based on a multi-scale adaptive kernel ensemble. The model incorporates Gaussian wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,659 Views
9 Pages

9 August 2022

The Danjiangkou hydropower station is a water source project for the middle line of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project in China. The dam is composed of riverbed concrete dam and earth rock dam on both banks, with a total length of 3442 m. Once...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,424 Views
18 Pages

21 November 2024

Accurate prediction of concrete dam deformation is essential for ensuring structural safety and operational efficiency. This study presents a novel approach for monitoring and predicting concrete dam deformation using observed air temperature data, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,403 Views
26 Pages

A Novel Artificial Intelligence Prediction Process of Concrete Dam Deformation Based on a Stacking Model Fusion Method

  • Wenyuan Wu,
  • Huaizhi Su,
  • Yanming Feng,
  • Shuai Zhang,
  • Sen Zheng,
  • Wenhan Cao and
  • Hongchen Liu

29 June 2024

Deformation effectively represents the structural integrity of concrete dams and acts as a clear indicator of their operational performance. Predicting deformation is critical for monitoring the safety of hydraulic structures. To this end, this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
917 Views
23 Pages

27 March 2025

Deformation is a key physical quantity that reflects the safety status of dams. Dam deformation is influenced by multiple factors and has seasonal and periodic patterns. Due to the challenges in accurately predicting dam deformation with traditional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,362 Views
21 Pages

19 November 2024

The accurate prediction of dam deformation is essential for ensuring safe and efficient dam operation and risk management. However, the nonlinear relationships between deformation and time-varying environmental factors pose significant challenges, of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
389 Views
22 Pages

28 November 2025

A series of machine learning models have been proposed in the past decades, but it remains undetermined which is optimal for specific applications. Establishing mathematical prediction models for dam deformation and structural health monitoring based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,627 Views
19 Pages

Enhancing the Prediction of Dam Deformations: A Novel Data-Driven Approach

  • Jonas Ziemer,
  • Gideon Stein,
  • Carolin Wicker,
  • Jannik Jänichen,
  • Daniel Klöpper,
  • Katja Last,
  • Joachim Denzler,
  • Christiane Schmullius,
  • Maha Shadaydeh and
  • Clémence Dubois

15 March 2025

Deformation monitoring is a critical task for dam operators to guarantee safe operation. Given an increasing number of extreme weather events caused by climate change, the precise prediction of dam deformations has become increasingly important. Trad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,537 Views
18 Pages

27 September 2023

The Xiaolangdi reservoir has a storage capacity of more than 10 billion cubic meters, and the dam has significant seasonal deformation. Predicting the deformation of the dam during different periods is important for the safe operation of the dam. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,782 Views
12 Pages

12 October 2023

Deformation can effectively reflect the structural state of concrete dams and, thus, establishing na accurate concrete dam deformation prediction model is important for dam health monitoring and early warning strategies. To address the problem that t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,074 Views
16 Pages

26 November 2024

Deformation is a critical indicator of structural integrity, and monitoring deformation is essential for ensuring the long-term safety of dams. However, characterizing the spatial correlations among dam deformation sequences and the similarity betwee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,926 Views
19 Pages

A New Algorithm for Predicting Dam Deformation Using Grey Wolf-Optimized Variational Mode Long Short-Term Neural Network

  • Xiwen Sun,
  • Tieding Lu,
  • Shunqiang Hu,
  • Haicheng Wang,
  • Ziyu Wang,
  • Xiaoxing He,
  • Hongqiang Ding and
  • Yuntao Zhang

26 October 2024

To solve the problems of difficult to model parameter selections, useful signal extraction and improper-signal decomposition in nonlinear, non-stationary dam displacement time series prediction methods, we propose a new predictive model for grey wolf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,180 Views
27 Pages

Pearson K-Mean Multi-Head Attention Model for Deformation Prediction of Super-High Dams in First Impoundments

  • Yilun Wei,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Hang Duan,
  • Yajun Wang,
  • Yu Hu,
  • Xuezhou Zhu,
  • Yaosheng Tan and
  • Lei Pei

30 April 2023

The first impoundment of a super-high dam is a crucial period from dam construction to operation, in which the prediction of the dam deformation is vital for the continued safety of the dam. Therefore, a multi-head attention model based on Pearson K-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,153 Views
15 Pages

Deformation Prediction of Dam Based on Optimized Grey Verhulst Model

  • Changjun Huang,
  • Lv Zhou,
  • Fenliang Liu,
  • Yuanzhi Cao,
  • Zhong Liu and
  • Yun Xue

4 April 2023

Dam deformation monitoring data are generally characterized by non-smooth and no-saturated S-type fluctuation. The grey Verhulst model can get better results only when the data series is non-monotonic swing development and the saturated S-shaped sequ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,936 Views
21 Pages

Dam deformation is the most visual and relevant monitoring quantity that reflects the operational condition of a concrete dam. The seasonal variations in the external environment can induce seasonal fluctuations in the deformation of concrete dams. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,416 Views
25 Pages

13 May 2024

Deformation monitoring for mass concrete structures such as high-arch dams is crucial to their safe operation. However, structure deformations are influenced by many complex factors, and deformations at different positions tend to have spatiotemporal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
489 Views
21 Pages

13 October 2025

Accurate prediction of dam deformation is crucial for structural safety monitoring. For enhancing the prediction accuracy of concrete dam deformation and addressing the issues of insufficient precision and poor stability in existing methods when mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,292 Views
24 Pages

Greedy Weighted Stacking of Machine Learning Models for Optimizing Dam Deformation Prediction

  • Patricia Alocén,
  • Miguel Á. Fernández-Centeno and
  • Miguel Á. Toledo

25 April 2024

Dam safety monitoring is critical due to its social, environmental, and economic implications. Although conventional statistical approaches have been used for surveillance, advancements in technology, particularly in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,347 Views
25 Pages

23 November 2022

During its long service life, an arch dam affected by a combination of factors exhibits a typical time-varying characteristic in terms of its structure and material properties, and the deformation in the dam structure can directly and reliably reflec...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,488 Views
19 Pages

A Tailings Dam Long-Term Deformation Prediction Method Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition and LSTM Model Combined with Attention Mechanism

  • Yang Zhu,
  • Yijun Gao,
  • Zhenhao Wang,
  • Guansen Cao,
  • Renjie Wang,
  • Song Lu,
  • Wei Li,
  • Wen Nie and
  • Zhongrong Zhang

11 April 2022

Tailings dams are constructed as storage dams for ore waste, serving as industrial waste piles and for drainage. The dam is negatively affected by rainfall, infiltration lines and its own gravity, which can cause its instability to gradually increase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,886 Views
24 Pages

29 September 2023

The deformation behavior of a dam can comprehensively reflect its structural state. By comparing the actual response with model predictions, dam deformation prediction models can detect anomalies for effective advance warning. Most existing dam defor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
2,962 Views
16 Pages

25 October 2022

The deformation monitoring information of concrete dams contains some high-frequency components, and the high-frequency components are strongly nonlinear, which reduces the accuracy of dam deformation prediction. In order to solve such problems, this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,239 Views
15 Pages

Dam Deformation Monitoring Data Analysis Using Space-Time Kalman Filter

  • Wujiao Dai,
  • Ning Liu,
  • Rock Santerre and
  • Jiabao Pan

Noise filtering, data predicting, and unmonitored data interpolating are important to dam deformation data analysis. However, traditional methods generally process single point monitoring data separately, without considering the spatial correlation b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,339 Views
16 Pages

A Combined Safety Monitoring Model for High Concrete Dams

  • Chongshi Gu,
  • Yanbo Wang,
  • Hao Gu,
  • Yating Hu,
  • Meng Yang,
  • Wenhan Cao and
  • Zheng Fang

26 November 2022

When applying reliability analysis to the monitoring of structural health, it is very important that gross errors–which affect prediction accuracy–are included within the monitoring information. An approach using gross errors identificati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,619 Views
18 Pages

A Completion Method for Missing Concrete Dam Deformation Monitoring Data Pieces

  • Hao Gu,
  • Tengfei Wang,
  • Yantao Zhu,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Dashan Yang and
  • Lixian Huang

5 January 2021

A concrete dam is an important water-retaining hydraulic structure that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams. It can be regarded as a constantly changing complex system. The deformation of a concrete dam can reflect its operati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,201 Views
35 Pages

Hydropower dam displacement is influenced by various factors (dam ageing, reservoir water level, air, water, and concrete temperature), which cause complex nonlinear behaviour that is difficult to predict. Object deformation monitoring is a task of g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,627 Views
19 Pages

Study of a Gray Genetic BP Neural Network Model in Fault Monitoring and a Diagnosis System for Dam Safety

  • Hai-Feng Liu,
  • Chao Ren,
  • Zhong-Tian Zheng,
  • Yue-Ji Liang and
  • Xian-Jian Lu

In this paper, a self-diagnosis system of observer fault with linear and non-linear combination is studied in light of the unstable performance of the automatic monitoring system and the drift of the measured value. The system makes a prediction step...

  • Article
  • Open Access
717 Views
19 Pages

17 October 2025

Accurate prediction of structural displacements in hydropower stations is essential for the safety and long-term stability of large-scale water-related infrastructure. To address this challenge, this study proposes an AI-assisted monitoring framework...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,414 Views
19 Pages

Prediction of Concrete Dam Deformation through the Combination of Machine Learning Models

  • Patricia Alocén,
  • Miguel Á. Fernández-Centeno and
  • Miguel Á. Toledo

1 April 2022

Dam safety monitoring is of vital importance, due to the high number of fatalities and large economic damage that a failure might imply. This, along with the evolution of artificial intelligence, has led to machine learning techniques being increasin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,444 Views
18 Pages

15 November 2024

Deformation predictions in high Concrete Face Rockfill Dams tend to underestimate observed settlements due to scale effect and breakage phenomena that cannot be adequately captured by laboratory tests. This paper presents a Visco-Elasto-Perfectly Pla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,038 Views
12 Pages

24 January 2025

This paper presents a deformation prediction model for concrete dams that integrates a reptile search algorithm (RSA), a Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) algorithm, and a long short-term memory network model with attention mechanism (AttLSTM). Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,994 Views
18 Pages

24 October 2024

An accurate prediction model for dam deformation is crucial for ensuring the safety and operational integrity of dam structures. This study introduces a hybrid modeling approach that integrates long short-term memory (LSTM) networks with Kolmogorov&n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
544 Views
18 Pages

A Hybrid POA-VMD–Attention-BiLSTM Model for Deformation Prediction of Concrete Dams and Buildings

  • Zeju Zhao,
  • Chunhui Fang,
  • Xue Wang,
  • Meng Yang,
  • Huaijun Zhang,
  • Zhengfei Xu,
  • Guoqiang Ding,
  • Sijing Song and
  • Jinyou Li

14 October 2025

To improve the accuracy of deformation prediction in concrete buildings and large-scale infrastructures such as dams, this study proposes an Attention-BiLSTM model integrated with a parameter-optimized Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD). Specifical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,137 Views
28 Pages

Soil and Rockfill Dams Safety Assessment for Henan Province: Monitoring, Analysis and Prediction

  • Hui Liu,
  • Mengyuan Zhu,
  • Wu Zhu,
  • Wenfei Zhao,
  • Zechao Bai,
  • Bochen Zhou,
  • Geshuang Li and
  • Yuanxi Wang

31 August 2023

It is of great significance to explore the spatial and temporal evolution of soil and rockfill dam deformation, ensuring the safety of people’s lives and healthy economic development. The spatial and temporal evolution patterns of deformation o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,812 Views
17 Pages

4 January 2024

In the numerical simulation of earth-rock dam, accurate and reliable mechanical parameters of the dam material are the important basis for dam deformation predictions and dam safety evaluations. Based on the deformation monitoring data of Luding core...

  • Article
  • Open Access
211 Views
19 Pages

A Case Study on Predicting River Valley Deformation Following Reservoir Impoundment

  • Lida Xu,
  • Shunwen Zhou,
  • Xingyong He,
  • Guan Rong and
  • Yaosheng Tan

8 January 2026

Valley contraction poses a significant threat to high-arch dams, making the prediction of valley deformation a critical task in assessing the long-term performance of dams. The Baihetan dam is currently undergoing compression due to valley contractio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,399 Views
29 Pages

6 April 2023

During the operational period, unexpected upstream deformation has been observed in several super-high arch dams located in the alpine and gorge regions. In addition, the phenomenon of the downstream dam deformation monitoring values being apparently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,196 Views
31 Pages

Philosophical Research Combined with Mathematics in Dam Safety Monitoring and Risk Analysis

  • Yan Wang,
  • Shuangping Li,
  • Qi He,
  • Meng Yang,
  • Zuqiang Liu and
  • Taoming Jiang

13 February 2025

In this study, philosophical research combined with mathematics was carried out in the area of dam safety monitoring and risk analysis. Variational mode decomposition was improved and proposed for dam deformation prediction though deep learning. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
4,267 Views
25 Pages

As an important feature, deformation analysis is of great significance to ensure the safety and stability of arch dam operation. In this paper, Jinping-I arch dam with a height of 305 m, which is the highest dam in the world, is taken as the research...

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