The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 103
ct with water, thusshowing that the dam broke into fragments at the old cracks. < >n each side of the basin washed out by water flowing between sections Eand F there is a remarkably interesting illustration of the effect of the hori-zontal pressure due to the motion of these two heavy masses… … .site of the An ting through this fold left a perfect section of the folded strata exposed toview. The Cause of the Failure The dam failed by sliding-, first at fragment G, where all concrete slippedon the underlying strata, and probably immediately thereafter at the horizontalconstruction joint…
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