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An Investigation of the Relative Stability of Vertical Back and Battered Back Dam Sections: A Thesis (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Geisler, Rupert J.

 
9781333274603: An Investigation of the Relative Stability of Vertical Back and Battered Back Dam Sections: A Thesis (Classic Reprint)

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These considerations suggest the adaption of a new section viz., one in which the head of water itself is used to lend additional stability, by taking advantage of its vertical component on a battered back.

It has been recently emphasized, that the most important of these new factors is the effect of uplift due to the seepage of water under-the foundation and into xhe body of the dam-itself. Various-assump tions have been made as-to_the amount of this uplift.

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