Models used during the design of the Boulder Dam / Bill Addis
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| 13211 | Capítulo en monografía |
From the 1910s, the designers of dams began looking at the new construction material, reinforced concrete, to reduce the weight and cost of dams. The United States Bureau of Reclamation began a huge research programme to develop concrete dams to alleviate the terrible consequences of fluvial flooding and to exploit hydroelectric power. In 1925 the Stevenson Creek Experimental Dam was constructed – effectively a model at a scale of about 1:3 – to study the behaviour of a concrete thin‐shell arch. They also developed the use of small‐scale models to predict the behaviour of the dam. This work paved the way for the construction of the Boulder (now Hoover) Dam in Arizona – at the time, the largest dam ever built – for which a massive model‐testing programme was carried out, not only for the structure of the dam but also the hydraulics of the spillways and penstocks.
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| Fundación Juanelo Turriano | 13211 |
From the 1910s, the designers of dams began looking at the new construction material, reinforced concrete, to reduce the weight and cost of dams. The United States Bureau of Reclamation began a huge research programme to develop concrete dams to alleviate the terrible consequences of fluvial flooding and to exploit hydroelectric power. In 1925 the Stevenson Creek Experimental Dam was constructed – effectively a model at a scale of about 1:3 – to study the behaviour of a concrete thin‐shell arch. They also developed the use of small‐scale models to predict the behaviour of the dam. This work paved the way for the construction of the Boulder (now Hoover) Dam in Arizona – at the time, the largest dam ever built – for which a massive model‐testing programme was carried out, not only for the structure of the dam but also the hydraulics of the spillways and penstocks.
