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Sep 1911
Dams on Sand Foundations: Some Principles Involved in their Design, and the Law Governing the Depth of Penetration Required for Sheet-Piling
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Volume 73, Issue 3
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All textbooks on the subject of dams which the writer has had occasion to examine emphatically discourage the idea of attempting to construct permanent dams on any kind of foundation other than solid rock bottom, although most of them contain one or more illustrations of the types which are generally designed for construction on alluvial soils, such as firm beds of clay, or deep strata of cemented gravel (commonly called “hardpan”), or on sand, provided the conditions are such as to permit the construction of a curtain, or cut-off wall, of sheet-piling, or a core-wall of masonry or of clay puddle, so as to penetrate a firm stratum of denser material.
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Arnold C. Koenig, AM.ASCE
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