Foz do Areia Dam?Design, Construction, and Behaviour
The 525 ft (160 m) high Foz do Areia dam in the Iguacu River, Parana, Brazil, built by 'Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL', between 1975-1980, is part of...
Construction of Foz do Areia Dam
The methods and equipment for the construction of Foz do Areia Dam during 1976-1980 in Brazil are described. Special emphasis is given to the rockfill construction. Foz do Areia was the...
Mangrove Creek Dam: Use of Soft Rock for Rockfill
Mangrove Creek Dam is an 80 m high concrete faced rockfill dam (CFRD) completed in 1981. The embankment was constructed largely out of low strength sandstones and siltstones available...
Design and Performance of Shiroro Rockfill Dam
Shiroro Dam, constructed across the Kaduna River in Nigeria, is a rockfill dam with reinforced concrete facing. The dam was completed in late 1983, and reservoir impounding started in...
Fortuna Concrete Face Rockfill Dam
The Fortuna Dam is a 60 m high concrete face rockfill dam located in Panama, designed to be built in two stages. This paper describes the construction of the first stage dam, 60 m high,...
Design Features of Salvajina Dam
Salvajina dam is the second highest concrete face rockfill dam currently in service in the world. The characteristics of the foundation of the toe slab vary from fresh, sound and little...
Construction and Performance of Salvajina Dam
Salvajina Dam was constructed between July, 1982 and November, 1984. Relevant construction aspects are described, particularly those related with procedures and statistical data of the...
Boondooma Dam
Concrete faced rockfill construction was adopted for the 210 ft (64 m) high Boondooma Dam in Southern Queensland, Australia, after detailed comparison between concrete faced and earth...
Khao Laem?A Concrete Face Rockfill Dam on Karst
A continuously reinforced concrete faced rockfill dam has been successfully designed and constructed on a karstic limestone foundation in Central West Thailand. The dam is not in an earthquake...
Design and Construction of Terror Lake Dam
Terror Lake Dam is a central feature of the 189 million Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project, located on Kodiak Island Alaska. The dam is a 193-feet (59 m) high concrete-faced zoned rockfill...
Kotmale Dam and Observations on CFRD
A concrete faced rockfill dam was the type selected for the 300 ft (90 m) dam at Kotmale in Sri Lanka for reasons of economy and speed in construction. Standard design concepts were tailored...
Batang Ai?Transition Zone
The Batang Ai Dam in Sarawak includes two concrete faced rockfill embankments. The transition zone between the concrete face and the rockfill consisted of natural river gravels but some...
Design of Concrete-Faced Rockfill Dams
Design principles adopted in 1966 by the Hydro-Electric Commission have been applied to nine concrete-faced rockfill dams and remain substantially unchanged. Experience shows that the...
Construction of Concrete Face Rockfill Dams
The Hydro-Electric Commission, Tasmania, Australia has been building concrete face rockfill dams since 1968. Eight dams from 26m to 110m high have been completed, and the highest at 122m...
Seismic Design of Concrete Faced Rockfill Dams
The results of analytical studies of the stability of the slopes of concrete-faced rockfill dams under different levels of earthquake shaking are presented and used to propose desirable...
Seismic Analysis of Concrete Face Rockfill Dams
In this article, the observed behavior of existing rockfill dams during earthquakes is compared with published data regarding the estimated seismic performance of several recently designed...
Design and Stability Evaluation of Balsam Meadow Dam
The proposed Balsam Meadow Dam is a 126 feet high concrete-faced rolled rockfill dam currently under construction for the Balsam Meadow hydroelectric project in California. Detailed field...
A Study of Deformations in Concrete Faced Rockfill Dams
This paper presents the results of studies on the behavior of certain concrete faced rockfill dams (CFRD), which were conducted during the Basic Design of Machadinho dam in Brazil. The...
Design of Deer Creek Dam
The Deer Creek Dam is proposed to be a concrete face rockfill structure (CFRD) with upstream and downstream slopes nominally 1. 3 horizontal to 1 vertical. The embankment will rise 280...
The Xing? Rockfill Dam
The concrete-face rockfill dam of the 5,000MW Xingo Hydroelectric Project in Brazil, is at the bidding stage at the present time. The dam has a maximum height of 460 ft (140m) and the...
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