Abstract
WHEN a dam is built on porous strata such as VV generally exist at the beds of rivers, there is a flow through these porous strata under the masonry from the upstream to the downstream side. Accompanying this, there will be a pressure acting upwards on the masonry fioor. An accurate knowledge of this uplift pressure and of the nature of its distribution is of fundamental importance for the purpose of designing a dam. There have been many attempts to investigate by direct measurements from models the way in which this pressure varies with different forms of design.
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Uplift Pressure on Dams. Nature 137, 1005 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1371005a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1371005a0