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The fractal theory was used to describe long term behavior of dam structures by means of determining (mono-) fractal exponents. Many records do not exhibit a simple monofractal scaling behavior, which can be accounted for by a single scaling exponent. In this paper the multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA) is employed to analyze the time series of in situ observed data of existing dam...