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 8
... cantilever stresses at the downstream face of the dam and the maximum arch stresses in the horizontal elements were well below 30 tons per square foot . Resultants were at approximately the same location for both empty and full ...
... cantilever stresses at the downstream face of the dam and the maximum arch stresses in the horizontal elements were well below 30 tons per square foot . Resultants were at approximately the same location for both empty and full ...
Page 9
... cantilever type , providing for a 5 - foot lift , with the vertical timbers extending down another 5 feet against the last pour . The fact that the corners of the columnar blocks of concrete in the dam extended vertically from the ...
... cantilever type , providing for a 5 - foot lift , with the vertical timbers extending down another 5 feet against the last pour . The fact that the corners of the columnar blocks of concrete in the dam extended vertically from the ...
Page 18
... cantilever I - beams over the canyon , or by interlocking change - over switch to any of four stations at the landing platforms . The contract for furnishing and erecting the cableway equipment was awarded to the Lidgerwood ...
... cantilever I - beams over the canyon , or by interlocking change - over switch to any of four stations at the landing platforms . The contract for furnishing and erecting the cableway equipment was awarded to the Lidgerwood ...
Page 34
... cantilever section and on a small reproduction of the entire dam , using plaster - celite materials in constructing both models . Results obtained from the model investigations and the trial - load twist analysis indicate that in the ...
... cantilever section and on a small reproduction of the entire dam , using plaster - celite materials in constructing both models . Results obtained from the model investigations and the trial - load twist analysis indicate that in the ...
Page 35
... cantilever , and the massive castings with anchorages and pier plates weigh an additional 287,000 pounds per gate . The control mechanism , complete with all piping and miscellaneous metal work , adds 180,000 pounds , resulting in a ...
... cantilever , and the massive castings with anchorages and pier plates weigh an additional 287,000 pounds per gate . The control mechanism , complete with all piping and miscellaneous metal work , adds 180,000 pounds , resulting in a ...
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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