Engineering for Masonry Dams
Engineering for Masonry Dams

Author: William Pitcher Creager

Publisher:

Published: 1917

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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The chapters cover such topics as: choice of location, choice of type of dam, forces acting on dams, requirements for stability of gravity dams and general equations for design of gravity dams.

Safety of Existing Dams
Safety of Existing Dams

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1983-01-01

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0309074797

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Written by civil engineers, dam safety officials, dam owners, geologists, hydraulic engineers, and risk analysts, this handbook is the first cooperative attempt to provide practical solutions to dam problems within the financial constraints faced by dam owners. It provides hands-on information for identifying and remedying common defects in concrete and masonry dams, embankment dams, reservoirs, and related structures. It also includes procedures for monitoring dams and collecting and analyzing data. Case histories demonstrate economical solutions to specific problems.

Building the Ultimate Dam
Building the Ultimate Dam

Author: Donald C. Jackson

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780806137339

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Offers compelling insight into how designer Eastwood battled government bureaucrats, corporate patrons, and fellow hydraulic engineers to build seventeen dams in the western U.S. during the early twentieth century based on his innovative multiple-arch design. Reprint.