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Jan 1949
Unusual Design Problems, Harlan County Dam
Author: Louis G. FeilAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 114, Issue 1
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Details and results of extensive analyses of stilling basin, spillway, and embankment designs for a major unit in the proposed flood control plan for a major tributary of the Missouri River are presented in this paper. Among the difficulties overcome in the final design are such foundation conditions as weak shaly chalk, badly faulted and fractured, and inter bedded with numerous near horizontal seams of bentonitic clay, together with almost certain differential settlement of an overlying loess and loess-silt mantle.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 114 • Issue 1 • January 1949
Pages: 321 - 332
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© 1949 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1949
Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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Louis G. Feil
Chf., Design Branch, Kansas City Dist., Corps of Engrs., Dept. of the Army, Kansas City, Mo.
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