Sentence examples for upstream facing from inspiring English sources

Slope of dam upstream facing: 1H/1 V.

The parameters considered for checking the structural stability of RCC dam are summarized as follows: Water load: 12.7 m Dam's crest: 6 m Slope of dam upstream facing: 1H/1 V Slope of dam downstream facing: 0.8H/1 V Trapezoidal diagram of under pressure at foundations Silting height: 6.35 m with a density of 17.7 KN/m3 RCC density: 23.25 KN/m3 Foundations cohesion: C = 60 KN/m2.

The SRS is a concrete-faced (upstream face), rock-cored, earthen dam about 550 m long, 56 m high, 21 m wide at the crest, and has a 122-m-wide armored spillway; its upstream catch basin is 13 km 2 in area and was designed to hold back about 200 million m 3 of sediment (USACE Portland District, unpublished data).

Their upstream face, therefore, is not vertical but inclines about 25° to 45°, so the thrust of the water on the upstream face inclines toward the foundation.

With time, the glacier will advance, eroding the shoal on the upstream face and depositing sediment on the downstream face.

The upstream face is supported by two buttresses, and the downstream face is a simple concrete slab.

A second area of potential weakness is the upstream face, when the water in the reservoir is rapidly drawn down.

A zone of freely draining fill of coarser grading can be placed on the upstream face to counter this.

As technology advanced, dams with thin buttresses of reinforced concrete supporting an inclined upstream face were built.

On some rockfill dams the core can slope forward to an extreme position where it lies on the upstream face.

The upstream face of the dam is protected against wave action by a 1-metre (3-foot) layer of broken stone (riprap).