Abstract:
This paper reports a case study of the thermal analysis of a concrete dam
during its construction phase. The thermo-chemical problem is solved using a heat
transfer model. In the absence of specific adiabatic calorimetric tests of the concrete, an
exponential function was calibrated by the best fitting of estimated heat of hydration at
the ages of 3, 7 and 28 days. The predicted temperatures obtained from the code are
compared with the actual temperatures measured in situ by the monitoring system
installed in the dam.
