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Components and Structure of Dams by Anonymous Qm0zbNk is a document available to read on EtoBox.
A dam is a structure built across a river to create a reservoir for purposes like irrigation, hydropower, water supply, and flood control. Dams can be single-purpose or multipurpose. The key parts of a dam include the crest, parapet walls, heel, toe, spillway, abutments, gallery, sluice way, and freeboard. A gravity dam is stabilized by its own weight but subjected to destabilizing forces like upstream water pressure and uplift pressure. For a gravity dam to be stable, it must resist overturning, sliding, e
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- Anonymous Qm0zbNk
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