Concrete dam

Staumauer der Okertalsperre (Harz)
concrete dam of the Okertalsperre (resin)
220 m. hohe Staumauer der Verzasca am Lago Maggiore (Schweiz)
220 M. high concrete dam of the Verzasca at the Lago Maggiore (Switzerland)

concrete dams are like dams shut-off buildings of dams. Concrete dams are made of concrete or brick-work; therefore they have a relatively small road-contact area and a steep water- and downstream faces. The water side is mostly even perpendicular.

On the other hand dams from ground connection or stone material are up-poured. Therefore they have relatively flat embankments.

Accordingly higher loads arise in the road-contact area of concrete dams, so that the underground largerForces to take up to be able must.

As well as concrete dams divide on

  • in gravity dams
  • , elbow rope walls
  • , elbow weight walls
  • , dam buttresses
  • , combined special forms.
 

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