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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... horizontally 9 feet center to center . Placing was started through the lowest row of chutes and carried progressively upward . Proper rotation was main- tained to place each side of the 40- or 26 - foot 8 - inch section simultaneously ...
... horizontally 9 feet center to center . Placing was started through the lowest row of chutes and carried progressively upward . Proper rotation was main- tained to place each side of the 40- or 26 - foot 8 - inch section simultaneously ...
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... horizontal curvature , many different thicknesses of cross- section at all elevations , and widely varying slopes of up- stream and downstream faces , showed that owing to the great height of the structure , such an ideal was impossible ...
... horizontal curvature , many different thicknesses of cross- section at all elevations , and widely varying slopes of up- stream and downstream faces , showed that owing to the great height of the structure , such an ideal was impossible ...
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... horizontal keys , spaced 10 feet apart . As soon as the initial set had taken place , the surface was washed with an air and water jet under high pressure , to remove any laitance or porous concrete along the horizontal joints . Before ...
... horizontal keys , spaced 10 feet apart . As soon as the initial set had taken place , the surface was washed with an air and water jet under high pressure , to remove any laitance or porous concrete along the horizontal joints . Before ...
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... horizontally . All pipes buried in the concrete were arranged in coils running in a circumferential direction from the ... Horizontal grout stops were placed in every joint at 50 - foot vertical intervals . Galleries were provided in the ...
... horizontally . All pipes buried in the concrete were arranged in coils running in a circumferential direction from the ... Horizontal grout stops were placed in every joint at 50 - foot vertical intervals . Galleries were provided in the ...
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... horizontal spacer bars 3 inches by % inch in section . The trashrack section on each tower extends from the base to elevation 1,200 . The total weight of all sections amounted to 7,024,000 pounds . The cranes and hoisting equipment are ...
... horizontal spacer bars 3 inches by % inch in section . The trashrack section on each tower extends from the base to elevation 1,200 . The total weight of all sections amounted to 7,024,000 pounds . The cranes and hoisting equipment are ...
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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