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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... form a monolithic structure . Similarly , methods of analysis have been improved and knowledge of stresses for all types of dams has been greatly increased over the technical studies used in the design of early dams . An attempt has ...
... form a monolithic structure . Similarly , methods of analysis have been improved and knowledge of stresses for all types of dams has been greatly increased over the technical studies used in the design of early dams . An attempt has ...
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... forms , consisting of steel side . plates carrying curved steel screeds , were then set in place and pouring started . Concrete was hauled by truck to the forms where the gantry crane took up the buckets and de- posited the contents ...
... forms , consisting of steel side . plates carrying curved steel screeds , were then set in place and pouring started . Concrete was hauled by truck to the forms where the gantry crane took up the buckets and de- posited the contents ...
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... forms the cut - off curtain under the dam , was not started until at least 100 feet of concrete had been placed over the site of the hole , the concrete cooled , and the joints grouted . The following maximum . pressures governed the ...
... forms the cut - off curtain under the dam , was not started until at least 100 feet of concrete had been placed over the site of the hole , the concrete cooled , and the joints grouted . The following maximum . pressures governed the ...
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... forms . Cement yield = 1.01 barrels per cubic yard . Modulus of elasticity = 5,200,000 . Strength ( 28 days ) in 36 × 72 - inch cylinders = 3,100 pounds per square inch . The dam was divided into columns or blocks by radial and ...
... forms . Cement yield = 1.01 barrels per cubic yard . Modulus of elasticity = 5,200,000 . Strength ( 28 days ) in 36 × 72 - inch cylinders = 3,100 pounds per square inch . The dam was divided into columns or blocks by radial and ...
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... 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 at the elevation of the ...
... 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 at the elevation of 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