Dams / Serge Leliavsky (1981)

Dams [texte imprimé] / Serge Leliavsky, Auteur . - London : Chapman and Hall, 1981 . - 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - (Design textbooks in civil engineering; Vol. 6) .
ISBN : 978-0-412-22550-5
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Langues : Anglais (eng)

Mots-clés :	Dams
Index. décimale :	627.8 Barrages. Centrales hydroélectriques.
Résumé :	The rapid development of water-power technique during the last thirty o r forty years has naturally attracted the attention of technical designers to questions relating to the calculation and construction of dams.
Note de contenu :	Sommaire : 1 - Structural design of masonry dams, elementary stress theory 2 - Shearing stresses in dams 3 - Thermal movements ans stresses in dams 4 - Dam movements due to combined action of thermal and non-thermal causes 5 - Uplift in dams and methods for dealing with it 6 - Advanced stress analysis 7 - Design criteria 8 - The heightening of existing dams 9 - Arch dams 10 - Baroque tendencies in the evolution of the gravity dam type,i,e. battress dams and hollow dams 11 - Concrete-block dams