Technical Engineering and Design Guides as Adapted from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers No. 27. This manual outlines the key components that will ensure the safety and performance of these dams, including competent and adequate supervision, careful inspection and control testing. Detailed chapters cover every aspect of foundation and abutment treatment, field organization and responsibility, borrow areas and quarries, earth-fill and rockfill construction, and miscellaneous construction features such as river diversion, stage construction and service bridge pier foundations. Useful appendices contain methods for relating field density data to desired or specified values, field compaction control forms, instructions for preparing periodic summaries of field compaction control data, detailed information on instruments used in earth and rockfill dam construction and lists of required and related publications, as well as a bibliography. This detailed and useful manual is an essential information source for engineers and constructors.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers
ISBN-13
9780784403327
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94691425
Product Key Features
Author
Not Available
Publication Name
Construction Control for Earth and Rockfill Dams
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Technical Engineering & Design Guides As Adapted from the US Army Corps of Engineers
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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