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Dam meaning
A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding. | The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure. | A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
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Furthermore, the designer tries to shape the dam so if one were to consider the part of dam above any particular height to be a whole dam itself, that dam also would be held in place by gravity.
Grand Coulee Dam is a solid gravity dam and Braddock Locks & Dam is a hollow gravity dam.
Beaver Dam Lake: Walleyes are active below the dam at Beaver Dam.
The Wellington Dam has a new walkway across the top of the dam wall, so you can safely gaze at the magnificent large-scale mural (it’s said to be the largest dam mural in the world).
While Pune city has been getting a major share of its water supply from Khadakwasla dam, 11 km from the city, now it will get a sizeable amount from a dam much farther away, as Bhama Askhed dam is located 42 km from the city.
The failure of the 305 foot high dam was attributed to leaks and cracks in the dam that eventually destroyed the integrity of the dam.
At the project’s onset, the dam was named the Millenium Dam, but has since been given a far more grandiose title: the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, otherwise known as GERD.
Ilorin metropolis has three water dams (Asa dam, Agba dam and Sobi dam) with capacity to supply water to every part of the city and take care of any expansion in the future.
An interesting type of temporary earth dam occasionally used in high latitudes is the frozen-core dam, in which a coolant is circulated through pipes inside the dam to maintain a watertight region of permafrost within it.
As that dam was a curved-gravity type, citation similar in design to the arch-gravity as was proposed for the Black Canyon dam, opponents claimed that the Black Canyon dam's safety could not be guaranteed.
Barrages The Koshi Barrage main A barrage dam is a special kind of dam which consists of a line of large gates that can be opened or closed to control the amount of water passing the dam.
By material Steel dams main Red Ridge steel dam, built 1905, Michigan A steel dam is a type of dam briefly experimented with around the start of the 20th century which uses steel plating (at an angle) and load-bearing beams as the structure.
Dam failure main The reservoir emptying through the failed Teton Dam International special sign for works and installations containing dangerous forces Dam failures are generally catastrophic if the structure is breached or significantly damaged.
Dam management becomes a complex exercise amongst competing stakeholders. citation Location The discharge of Takato Dam One of the best places for building a dam is a narrow part of a deep river valley; the valley sides then can act as natural walls.
Dry dam main A dry dam, also known as a flood retarding structure, is a dam designed to control flooding.
In a gravity dam, the force that holds the dam in place against the push from the water is Earth's gravity pulling down on the mass of the dam.
In engineering terms, that is true whenever the resultant of the forces of gravity acting on the dam and water pressure on the dam acts in a line that passes upstream of the toe of the dam.
The central square of Amsterdam, covering the original place of the 800-year-old dam, still carries the name Dam Square or simply the Dam.
There are no large natural lakes in Thuringia, but it does have some of Germany's biggest dams including the Bleiloch Dam and the Hohenwarte Dam at Saale river same as the Leibis-Lichte Dam and the Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station within the Highland.
The three dams of the project, Brownlee Dam, Oxbow Dam and Hells Canyon Dam, are located in upper Hells Canyon.