Structural Behavior Analysis, Canyon Ferry Dam, 1951-1963

11 fig DESCRIPTORS 28 resistance thermometers 50 psi occurred ANALYSIS CANYON FERRY axial stress BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS CANYON Block 13 Bureau of Reclamation Canyon Ferry Dam centerline of Block concrete dams construction of Canyon cooling crack detector crete cubic yards DAM USBR Rept described in Reference elevation 3630 feet FERRY DAM USBR friction tape gravity dams grouting intermittent readings Joint Meter J1 joint movements Joint openings length change LH STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOR locations maximum compressive stress maximum vertical section meters and intermittent meters were continued Missouri River Basin Periodic readings Poisson's ratio Principal stresses readings reduced reduced to stresses RESERVOIR WATER SURFACE River Basin Project Roehm shear stresses show a maximum strain measurement strain meter clusters strain meter groups strain meter pair strainmeters STRESS IN PSI stresses and distributions stresses and joint stresses and temperature STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS structural behavior IDENTIFIERS thermometers were embedded Transient tensile stresses upstream USBR Rept DD-4 WATER SURFACE ELEVATION