Sentence examples for inside the dam from inspiring English sources

The Canadian authorities would not allow the modern-day re-enactment to use a live incendiary, so explosives inside the dam instead were detonated once the pilots had carried out a successful direct hit.

Gen. Ante Roso, commander of the Croatian forces that retook the dam on Thursday, estimated that the Serbs had used 35 to 37 tons of explosives at seven different sites inside the dam.

Thus, the influences of different drawdown speeds, soil permeability values, stiffness and geometries in a theoretical rectangular Earth dam have been analyzed in terms of effective vertical stress changes at relevant points inside the dam.

Clearly nonnegligible contributions to measurable displacements due to seasonal thermal effects are taken into account by temperature measurements at time intervals through thermometers inside the dam, identification by them of parameters governing simplified thermal boundary conditions, time-dependence expressed by truncated Fourier series over a one-year period.

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.

The model was validated using the Grancarevo dam case study (at the Trebisnjica river located in the Republic of Srpska), where radial displacements of a point inside the dam structure have been modeled as a function of headwater, temperature, and ageing.

But videos uploaded on the Internet by insurgents appeared to corroborate they were in control of areas inside and outside the dam, although not necessarily the control room.

Water seeping through a dam can erode it from the inside out, to the point where the dam may fail.

I had a place at that time on Bermuda Street so I was staying inside but I could still hear the dam pop.

A worker opens a valve in the "gallery," a tunnel that runs inside the base of the dam, four hundred feet below the top.

There has clearly been a tussle inside the government over the dam, which began construction in 2009 and was scheduled for completion in 2018.