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Some Lessons Learned from On-Site Observations on High Concrete Dams

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Some results of generalizing and analyzing long-term on-site observations of the construction and operation of high-head concrete dams with consideration of geodynamic effect and imperfection of the designs of dams in tectonically unstable regions are briefly presented.

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The article is devoted to the 90th anniversary of the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences

Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel’stvo, No. 3, March 2018, pp. 2 – 12.

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Marchuk, A.N. Some Lessons Learned from On-Site Observations on High Concrete Dams. Power Technol Eng 52, 275–284 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10749-018-0945-x

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