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Feb 1974
Performance Instrumentation Installed in Oroville Dam
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Oroville Dam, a 770-ft-high, earth-fill dam with an 80,000,000 cu yd embankment, was extensively instrumented during construction. The instrumentation includes piezometers, fluid settlement devices, crossarm devices, soil-pressure cells, accelerometers, and extensometers in the embankment, and deformation meters, soil-pressure cells, and foundation/concrete-stress cells in concrete structures. Some of the instrumentation is designed to record events during an earthquake. Instrument descriptions, installation methods, and performance results including representative graphical data summaries are given, together with current (1973) operational status of the embedded instruments.
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Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division
Volume 100 • Issue 2 • February 1974
Pages: 157 - 174
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© 1974 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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John E. O’Rourke, M.ASCE
Instrumentation Engr., Woodward-Clyde & Assocs., Oakland, Calif.; formerly Sr. Engr., Calif. Dept. of Water Resources
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