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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 85
Page
... built by the Bureau range in size from simple , small diversion structures of a few feet in height to gigantic storage dams of unprece- dented proportions . Through the years since the Federal Government began construction of self ...
... built by the Bureau range in size from simple , small diversion structures of a few feet in height to gigantic storage dams of unprece- dented proportions . Through the years since the Federal Government began construction of self ...
Page 3
... built 26 miles of rail- road ; one branch extending to the Arizona gravel deposits at the bottom of Black Canyon , and another to the Nevada side of the gorge at the dam site . The State of Nevada constructed a new highway be- tween Las ...
... built 26 miles of rail- road ; one branch extending to the Arizona gravel deposits at the bottom of Black Canyon , and another to the Nevada side of the gorge at the dam site . The State of Nevada constructed a new highway be- tween Las ...
Page 4
two folding wings built on either side were used for this operation . The drills were mounted on the wings , curved on a 28 - foot radius , and the whole of the invert section drilled in one operation . Trimming and scaling operations ...
two folding wings built on either side were used for this operation . The drills were mounted on the wings , curved on a 28 - foot radius , and the whole of the invert section drilled in one operation . Trimming and scaling operations ...
Page 8
... built of a plaster and celite mixture . The other model of the entire dam was constructed of a rubber - litharge compound . Results obtained from the model tests furnished very satisfactory confirmations of the trial - load analyses and ...
... built of a plaster and celite mixture . The other model of the entire dam was constructed of a rubber - litharge compound . Results obtained from the model tests furnished very satisfactory confirmations of the trial - load analyses and ...
Page 9
... built for each separate block and used for successive lifts without recutting . Eight - cubic - yard , bottom - discharge buckets were used in placing , to prevent segregation with a minimum variation in water content . The buckets were ...
... built for each separate block and used for successive lifts without recutting . Eight - cubic - yard , bottom - discharge buckets were used in placing , to prevent segregation with a minimum variation in water content . The buckets were ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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