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Field Observations of Soil Settlements, Displacements, and Pore Pressure in Dams

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The authors have collected publications devoted to field observations of dams, and compared the results with field data of the Nurek HEPP in order to assess the quality of dam construction in comparison with other dams built in the USSR and abroad.

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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel’stvo, September 2017, No. 9, pp. 29 – 39.

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Rasskazov, L.N., Yadgorov, E.K. & Nikolaev, V.B. Field Observations of Soil Settlements, Displacements, and Pore Pressure in Dams. Power Technol Eng 51, 611–620 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10749-018-0881-9

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