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Dec 1912
The Analytical Determination of the Dimensions of the Gravity Resisting Parts of Masonry Dams
Publication: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 75, Issue 1
Abstract
The writer, desiring and being unable to find an analytical rather than graphical method of dimensioning multiple-arch dam buttresses, has deduced the formulas presented herewith. These necessarily resemble, in general, the Wegmann formulas for gravity dams, as they fulfill the following conditions:
1.
No tension should exist.
2.
A certain fixed stress should never be exceeded, either on the up-stream or down-stream faces, and the down-stream maximum stress should be the les ser.
3.
Such economy of material as is consistent with safety should be realized.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 75 • Issue 1 • December 1912
Pages: 877 - 894
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© 1912 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Dec 1912
Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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Maurice G. Parsons, J.ASCE
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