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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... thickness of 36 inches with a 24 - inch minimum . Concrete for the invert and side wall sections was composed of 1 part cement , 2.1 parts sand , and 4.7 parts gravel . Aggregate was graded as follows : 4 to 4 inch , 32 percent ; % to ...
... thickness of 36 inches with a 24 - inch minimum . Concrete for the invert and side wall sections was composed of 1 part cement , 2.1 parts sand , and 4.7 parts gravel . Aggregate was graded as follows : 4 to 4 inch , 32 percent ; % to ...
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... thickness of rock blanket ; and the downstream slope of 4 : 1 was covered by a heavy rock fill . The paving consisted of a 6 - inch concrete slab , reinforced with - inch round bars on 15 - inch centers , spaced both ways . The ...
... thickness of rock blanket ; and the downstream slope of 4 : 1 was covered by a heavy rock fill . The paving consisted of a 6 - inch concrete slab , reinforced with - inch round bars on 15 - inch centers , spaced both ways . The ...
Page 8
... 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 . When the design of the dam was ...
... 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 . When the design of the dam was ...
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... thickness of the radial contraction joint openings was 0.126 inch and of the circumferential joints 0.087 inch . SPILLWAYS A capacity of 400,000 second - feet with the reservoir water surface at elevation 1,232 was selected for the ...
... thickness of the radial contraction joint openings was 0.126 inch and of the circumferential joints 0.087 inch . SPILLWAYS A capacity of 400,000 second - feet with the reservoir water surface at elevation 1,232 was selected for the ...
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... thickness of 24 inches of concrete . The channel lining was built in panels which were secured to the rock by hooked , 1 % -inch square bars , grouted into holes drilled into the rock a minimum distance of 5 feet . Concrete from the ...
... thickness of 24 inches of concrete . The channel lining was built in panels which were secured to the rock by hooked , 1 % -inch square bars , grouted into holes drilled into the rock a minimum distance of 5 feet . Concrete from 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