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Overtopping risk of high-hazard embankment dam under climate change condition. [PDF]

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Hafilah Wan Ariffin WN   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rockfill Dams: Review and Statistics

Journal of the Power Division, 1958
This paper reviews present practices. It develops a definition, classification and terminology for such dams and for those using earth in addition to rock fill. It discusses the advantages of deck-type dams; also settlement and economy of rock-fill dams. In its appendix it lists rock-fill dams constructed in the United States and in foreign countries.
John B. Snethlage   +2 more
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Rockfill Dams: Kenney And Cheakamus Dams

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1958
Site and materials data, design criteria, construction procedures and some performance records are presented in this paper on two zoned rock fill dams in British Columbia. One is founded on rock and the second on a mud slide.
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Progress in Rockfill Dams

Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 1984
Karl Terzaghi, a major contributor to progress in embankment dams, made significant contributions to the understanding of properties of rockfill and to the improvement of design of the concrete-face rockfill dam. His contributions are noted and followed by a history of parallel development of earth core and concrete-face rockfill dams and the impact of
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