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Coordinates: 36°0′56″N114°44′16″W. For other uses, see Hoover Dam (disambiguation). "Boulder Dam" redirects here. For other uses, see Boulder Dam (disambiguation). Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.
Hoover Dam is 726 feet (221 metres) high and 1,244 feet (379 metres) long at the crest. It contains 4,400,000 cubic yards (3,360,000 cubic metres) of concrete. Four reinforced-concrete intake towers located above the dam divert water from the reservoir into huge steel pipes called penstocks.
Hoover Dam was the first man-made structure to exceed the masonry mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The dam contains enough concrete to pave a strip 16 feet wide and 8 inches thick from San Francisco to New York City.
Hoover Dam: Construction Milestones in Concrete Delivery and Placement, Steel Fabrication, and Job Site Safety . J. David Rogers1, Ph.D., P.E., P.G., F. ASCE . 1K.F. Hasslemann Chair in Geological Engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, MO 65409; rogersda@mst.edu
The Colorado River's erratic flow and frequent floods made it unreliable for agriculture, and the region's growing cities needed more energy. So the government decided to build a massive hydroelectric dam. Alex Gendler details the creation of the Hoover Dam.
1 de mar. de 2021 · The entire concept is to curve the dam horizontally and vertically. By doing both, engineers can reallocate pressure that builds-up in the extremities of the dam [3]. The Hoover Dam follows this same format as an arch dam, however it is vertically curved to push the water downwards and is thus called an arch-gravity dam.
25 de may. de 2015 · Cooling mass concrete: Owyhee, Hoover, and building large dams. Authors: Fredric L. Quivik, PhD. , Author Affiliations. https://doi.org/10.1680/ehah.12.00015. Published Online: May 25, 2015. Keywords: concrete technology & manufacture ; dams, barrages & reservoirs ; water supply.
