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Prevention of cracking in earth dams

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  • In the Soviet National Committee on Large Dams
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Hydrotechnical Construction Aims and scope

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  1. R. A. Airapetyan, Design of Earth-Rock and Rockfill Dams [in Russian], Énergiya, Moscow (1975).

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  4. “First results of an investigation of the causes of the failure of the Teton dam,” Eksp. Inf., Énerg., No. 11 (1977).

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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 1, pp. 49–52, January, 1979.

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Airapetyan, R.A. Prevention of cracking in earth dams. Hydrotechnical Construction 13, 82–86 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02304323

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