Earth Dams - A Study
by Burr Bassell
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bassell, Burr, 1858-1905
- Title
- Earth dams, a study
- Original Publication
- United States: The Engineering News Publishing Company,1904.
- Credits
- Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TC: Technology: Ocean engineering
- Subject
- Earth dams
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 68721
- Release Date
- August 9, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.EARTH DAMS A STUDY
- 2.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5.Untitled
- 6.CHAPTER I. Introductory. — Classification of Dams.
- 7.CHAPTER II. Preliminary Studies and Investigations. — Catchment Area. — Reservoir Basin. — Dam Site.
- 8.CHAPTER III. Outline Study of Soils. Puddle. — Puddle.
- 9.CHAPTER IV. The Tabeaud Dam, California.
- 10.CHAPTER V. Different Types of Earth Dams. — Earth Dams with Puddle Core Wall or Face. — Puddle Trench. — Puddle Wall vs. Puddle Trench. — Percolation and Infiltration. — Preliminary Study of Profile for Dam. — Earthwork Slips and Drainage. — Jerome Park Reservoir Embankments. — North Dike of the Wachusett Reservoir, Boston. — Druid Lake Dam, Baltimore, Md. — New Types of Dams; Bohio, Panama Canal. — Combined Rock-fill and Earth Dam. — The San Leandro Dam, California. — Hydraulic-fill Dams. — An Impervious Diaphragm in Earth Dams.
- 11.CHAPTER VI. Conclusions.
- 12.APPENDIX I. High Earth Dams.
- 13.APPENDIX–II. Works of Reference.
- 14.INDEX.
- 15.Untitled
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