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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... designed at regular intervals to re- strict the cracking of the concrete , and the joints are grouted to form a monolithic structure . Similarly , methods of analysis have been improved and knowledge of stresses for all types of dams ...
... designed at regular intervals to re- strict the cracking of the concrete , and the joints are grouted to form a monolithic structure . Similarly , methods of analysis have been improved and knowledge of stresses for all types of dams ...
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... designed to provide a leakproof layer under the upstream part of the dam , below which the deeper and high - pressure grouting could be performed . These holes , spaced 20 feet on centers , were drilled 30 to 50 feet in depth and ...
... designed to provide a leakproof layer under the upstream part of the dam , below which the deeper and high - pressure grouting could be performed . These holes , spaced 20 feet on centers , were drilled 30 to 50 feet in depth and ...
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... designed to contain one barrel of cement per cubic yard of concrete . The maximum size of aggregate was limited to 9 inches to facilitate mixing and placing operations . The mix , as finally adopted , was composed of one part cement ...
... designed to contain one barrel of cement per cubic yard of concrete . The maximum size of aggregate was limited to 9 inches to facilitate mixing and placing operations . The mix , as finally adopted , was composed of one part cement ...
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... designed and 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 ...
... designed and 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 ...
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... designed for a flow of not less than 3 gallons per minute through each coil , but an average actual flow of more than 4 gallons per minute was obtained . The refrigeration plant was rated at 825 tons of refrigera- tion , 1 ton being ...
... designed for a flow of not less than 3 gallons per minute through each coil , but an average actual flow of more than 4 gallons per minute was obtained . The refrigeration plant was rated at 825 tons of refrigera- tion , 1 ton being ...
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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