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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Page 5
... Grout was applied at from 50 to 100 pounds pressure , using a duplex , air - driven , piston grout pump . mounted on a truck with the mixing apparatus . Low - pressure grout holes were drilled through the invert and lower side walls to ...
... Grout was applied at from 50 to 100 pounds pressure , using a duplex , air - driven , piston grout pump . mounted on a truck with the mixing apparatus . Low - pressure grout holes were drilled through the invert and lower side walls to ...
Page 6
... grout curtain or cut - off for the dam included three systems of holes . The first or " B " - hole grouting was ... grout having a water - cement ratio ranging from 1.0 to 5.0 , by volume , was injected to practical refusal at 300 pounds ...
... grout curtain or cut - off for the dam included three systems of holes . The first or " B " - hole grouting was ... grout having a water - cement ratio ranging from 1.0 to 5.0 , by volume , was injected to practical refusal at 300 pounds ...
Page 7
... grout applied . " C " -line grouting , to provide a supplemental cut - off under the heel of the dam , followed the upstream outline of the dam from the lowest point of the foundation to ele- vation 775 on either abutment . The holes ...
... grout applied . " C " -line grouting , to provide a supplemental cut - off under the heel of the dam , followed the upstream outline of the dam from the lowest point of the foundation to ele- vation 775 on either abutment . The holes ...
Page 9
... grouting . The rate of placing concrete was restricted so that not more than one horizontal layer , 5 feet in depth , could be placed in 72 hours , and not more than 35 feet in depth could be placed in 30 days . A maximum vertical ...
... grouting . The rate of placing concrete was restricted so that not more than one horizontal layer , 5 feet in depth , could be placed in 72 hours , and not more than 35 feet in depth could be placed in 30 days . A maximum vertical ...
Page 10
... grout stops were placed in every joint at 50 - foot vertical intervals . Galleries were provided in the dam at the top of each 50- foot lift , for convenience in grouting and observing the behavior of the joints under applications of grout ...
... grout stops were placed in every joint at 50 - foot vertical intervals . Galleries were provided in the dam at the top of each 50- foot lift , for convenience in grouting and observing the behavior of the joints under applications of grout ...
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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