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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... face on 16 - foot centers . The slab extended down to and connected with a line of steel sheet - piling , driven to bedrock along the upstream toe . The cut - off wall was joined to the face paving by a concrete wall and rubber seal ...
... face on 16 - foot centers . The slab extended down to and connected with a line of steel sheet - piling , driven to bedrock along the upstream toe . The cut - off wall was joined to the face paving by a concrete wall and rubber seal ...
Page 8
... face of the dam and the maximum arch stresses in the horizontal elements were well below 30 tons per square foot ... face of the dam near the arch abutments to reduce the compressive stresses at the intrados , and a short - radius fillet ...
... face of the dam and the maximum arch stresses in the horizontal elements were well below 30 tons per square foot ... face of the dam near the arch abutments to reduce the compressive stresses at the intrados , and a short - radius fillet ...
Page 9
... face at the base of the dam to 50 by 60 feet at the upstream face . Joints were interlocked by keys , formed to provide maximum cross - sectional area for resistance to shear after grouting . The rate of placing concrete was restricted ...
... face at the base of the dam to 50 by 60 feet at the upstream face . Joints were interlocked by keys , formed to provide maximum cross - sectional area for resistance to shear after grouting . The rate of placing concrete was restricted ...
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... face , was provided for the cooling system header pipes . The 6 - inch , cork - insu- lated header pipes extended through the slot to the up- stream face of the dam . They connected directly with the loops of 1 - inch cooling pipes ...
... face , was provided for the cooling system header pipes . The 6 - inch , cork - insu- lated header pipes extended through the slot to the up- stream face of the dam . They connected directly with the loops of 1 - inch cooling pipes ...
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... face of the weir that forms part of one side of the spillway channel was designed as a parabola tangent to a 1⁄2 : 1 slope . The opposite side of the channel was provided with a similar slope . These slopes provide a width of 125 feet ...
... face of the weir that forms part of one side of the spillway channel was designed as a parabola tangent to a 1⁄2 : 1 slope . The opposite side of the channel was provided with a similar slope . These slopes provide a width of 125 feet ...
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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