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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... joints are 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 ...
... joints are 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 ...
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... joint resolution ( 45 Sta . 1011 ) of May 1928 , directed the Secretary of the Interior to appoint a board of five engineers and geologists to review the plans and esti- mates for the Boulder Canyon Project and report on the safety ...
... joint resolution ( 45 Sta . 1011 ) of May 1928 , directed the Secretary of the Interior to appoint a board of five engineers and geologists to review the plans and esti- mates for the Boulder Canyon Project and report on the safety ...
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... joints in the invert were pro- vided every 40 feet , except in those portions of the two outer tunnels which were later to be used as spillways , where the distance was 26 feet 8 inches . This same spacing of con- traction joints also ...
... joints in the invert were pro- vided every 40 feet , except in those portions of the two outer tunnels which were later to be used as spillways , where the distance was 26 feet 8 inches . This same spacing of con- traction joints also ...
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... joints which extended up and down the 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 ...
... joints which extended up and down the 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 ...
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... joints , variations of strength with age and curing temperature , proper gradation of fine and coarse aggregates , effects of vibrating fresh concrete , determina- tion of proper mix , and numerous problems of a thermal nature . Two of ...
... joints , variations of strength with age and curing temperature , proper gradation of fine and coarse aggregates , effects of vibrating fresh concrete , determina- tion of proper mix , and numerous problems of a thermal nature . Two of ...
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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