Dams and Control Works, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - Dams A description of representative storage and diversion dams and high-pressure reservoir outlet works constructed by the Bureau of Reclamtion. |
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... ARCH DAMS 235 TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF MASS CONCRETE IN LARGE DAMS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF SMALL EARTH DAMS 243 252 DAMS CONSTRUCTED BY THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION ( Table ) . 258 1 PART ONE STORAGE DAMS A BOULDER DAM BOULDER CANYON VII.
... ARCH DAMS 235 TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF MASS CONCRETE IN LARGE DAMS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF SMALL EARTH DAMS 243 252 DAMS CONSTRUCTED BY THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION ( Table ) . 258 1 PART ONE STORAGE DAMS A BOULDER DAM BOULDER CANYON VII.
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... arch section of 110 ° , to be placed last . Specifications required an average lining thickness of 36 inches with a 24 - inch minimum . Concrete for the invert and side wall sections was composed of 1 part cement , 2.1 parts sand , and ...
... arch section of 110 ° , to be placed last . Specifications required an average lining thickness of 36 inches with a 24 - inch minimum . Concrete for the invert and side wall sections was composed of 1 part cement , 2.1 parts sand , and ...
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... arch cofferdams , flanked on the river side by rock fills , were constructed at each portal to keep out water . Wooden trestles with ramps were provided over these bar- riers to reach the tunnel floors . Low - pressure grouting was ...
... arch cofferdams , flanked on the river side by rock fills , were constructed at each portal to keep out water . Wooden trestles with ramps were provided over these bar- riers to reach the tunnel floors . Low - pressure grouting was ...
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... arch - gravity structure in which water load is carried by both gravity and arch ac- tion . The length along the crest is 1,282 feet , the maximum height as measured from the lowest point of the foundation rock to the roadway crest is ...
... arch - gravity structure in which water load is carried by both gravity and arch ac- tion . The length along the crest is 1,282 feet , the maximum height as measured from the lowest point of the foundation rock to the roadway crest is ...
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... arch stresses in the horizontal elements were well below 30 tons per square foot . Resultants were at approximately the same location for both empty and full conditions of the reservoir , due to the great size of the struc- ture and the ...
... arch stresses in the horizontal elements were well below 30 tons per square foot . Resultants were at approximately the same location for both empty and full conditions of the reservoir , due to the great size of the struc- ture and the ...
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acre-feet aggregate All-American Canal arch Arrowrock Dam basin borrow pit Boulder Dam bronze BUREAU OF RECLAMATION buttress cableway canal cantilever canyon walls cement centers channel cofferdam construction contraction joints cooling cost crest cubic yards cut-off wall cylinder deflections designed diameter discharge diversion tunnel downstream face drain drainage drilled dumped earth elevation embankment emergency gates Engineering excavation feet long foundation gallery gate chamber Grand Coulee Grand Coulee Dam gravel gravity grout grout holes hoist horizontal hydraulic Imperial Dam Installing and painting irrigation left abutment located lower material maximum miles mixer needle valves operation outlet Owyhee Dam penstock pipe placed pounds per square pressure pump radial reservoir reservoir water right abutment riprap river rock fill roller sand second-feet shaft side slope sluice sluiceway spillway square inch steel storage stresses structure temperature tests thickness tion trashrack trial load upstream face vertical water surface