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Calderwood high arch dam designed with deep cushion pool to receive overflow
Design and construction of concrete-arch overflow dam, 230 ft. high, built by Aluminum Co. of America at Calderwood, Tenn., 45 miles south of Knoxville; downstream toe is protected by deep cushion pool formed by 40 ft. gravity dam; preparations made to measure deflection of full-size arch dam under various loads; details of concrete armor and jet deflectors, intake structure, 2400 ft. pressure tunnel and differential surge chamber blasted out of solid rock.
Calderwood high arch dam designed with deep cushion pool to receive overflow
Design and construction of concrete-arch overflow dam, 230 ft. high, built by Aluminum Co. of America at Calderwood, Tenn., 45 miles south of Knoxville; downstream toe is protected by deep cushion pool formed by 40 ft. gravity dam; preparations made to measure deflection of full-size arch dam under various loads; details of concrete armor and jet deflectors, intake structure, 2400 ft. pressure tunnel and differential surge chamber blasted out of solid rock.
Calderwood high arch dam designed with deep cushion pool to receive overflow
Eng. News-Rec
Engineering News Record ; 103
1929
5 pages
9 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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