Abstract
A new rubber dam with two layers of dam bodies anchored together into a rigid concrete base was proposed to improve the water-retaining capacity of a traditional rubber dam. A series of large-scale model tests was conducted to evaluate the static behaviour of a double-layer rubber dam under conditions of different internal and external water heads, anchoring distances and cross-sectional perimeters. It was found that the maximum tensile force of the Layer-1 dam is located at the anchoring point but that of the Layer-2 dam is located at the extruded free section. The optimal cross-sectional perimeter ratio was concluded as 0.8 with an optimal anchoring distance of 0.06 L1 and an internal water head in the upstream dam and in the downstream dam of 0.40 L1 and 0.36 L1, respectively, where L1 is the cross-sectional perimeter of the upstream dam.
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