A Study of the Failure of the Austin City Dam
Author : Clarence William Meyers
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Dam failures
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Author : Clarence William Meyers
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Dam failures
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Author : Frank Pape McKibben
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Dams
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Author : Chuan Tze Hsiung
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Page : 270 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Dam failures
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Author : Emily Monahan
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Austin Dam (Pa.)
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Investigates theoretically the structural integrity of the original Austin Dam in Austin, Pennsylvania and determine the likely cause of its failure in 1911. Using standard engineering practices of the early 1900's, the dam's stability against sliding, overturning, and crushing was calculated. After creating a solid computer model of the dam, a stress analysis was performed using modern finite element analysis methods which were not available at the time of the failure. Construction and analysis of a model incorporating suggested reinforcements to the structure determined if these reinforcements would have been sufficient to prevent the failure.
Author : Daniel Martt
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Dam failures
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Author : John Alfred Skinner
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Page : 63 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : Thomas P. Rich
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2006
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Author : Norbert J. Delatte
Publisher : Amer Society of Civil Engineers
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780784409732
Norbert Delatte presents the circumstances of important failures that have had far-reaching impacts on civil engineering practice, organized around topics in the engineering curriculum.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Dam failures
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Author : Elizabeth H. Clare
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1439663890
The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900 recreates the era of Gay Nineties Austin, then--as now--a city on the rise and on the make. In 1891, at the behest of ambitious city fathers, the little city of just 15,000 people gambled its future on a project of breathtaking size--a massive hydroelectric dam across the Colorado River. This book follows the epic construction project and the brief golden era of the pleasure resort at Lake McDonald. Though troubled and controversial from the get-go, the dam embodied all of Austin's dreams. Then, on Friday, April 6, 1900, it began to rain . . .