Sentence examples for downstream slope from inspiring English sources

Selection of an optimal downstream slope was discussed based on a simplified stress based assessment method.

Disaster is likely in the case of an embankment dam not designed to permit uncontrolled flow of water on its downstream slope.

The effect of this centimetre displacement rate has been shown through several damage features on the dam body, including minor to large dislocation cracks on the crest and a significant deformation zone on the downstream slope.

The following four reinforcing measures are discussed in this study: reinforcing the top zone with geogrid, protecting the downstream slope surface using stone block, replacing the top zone of the dam with cemented rock-fill material or concrete layers.

In order to do that, the following characteristics of the dam must be known: (1) geotechnical stability, (2) erosion of downstream slope, (3) type of sealing of the dam, (4) overtopping probability, (5) volume of leachate stored inside the dam and (6) pollution load of leachate.

Finally, a new technology proposed to stabilize the downstream slope of earth-fill dams against overflowing flood water while ensuring a high seismic stability by protecting the slope with soil bags anchored with geosynthetic reinforcement layers arranged in the slope is described.

The dam was strengthened to withstand the Maximum Credible Earthquake (MCE) by buttressing of its upstream and downstream slopes.

The ridges dividing the upstream and downstream slopes are therefore perpendicular to the general flow direction of the former ice mass.

The geometric pattern of buffers differed substantially from that associated with fixed buffer width protection, and shows that a major deficiency of the 'fixed width' approach is under-protection of source areas and overprotection of downstream slopes contributing to a waterway.

The upstream side of a roche moutonnée has been subjected to glacial scouring that has produced a gentle, polished, and striated slope; the downstream side has been subjected to glacial plucking that has resulted in a steep, irregular, and jagged slope.

At the foot of the headcut is a plunge pool, downstream of which occurs a depositional slope of low downstream gradient.