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A U.S. Department of the Interior agency that oversees water resource management incuding the oversight and operation of numerous diversion, delivery, and storage projects the agency has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power ...
The angle between the direction of the resultant stress or force acting on a given plane and the normal to that plane.
Industry:Engineering
Decrease in amplitude of the seismic waves with distance due to geometric spreading, energy absorption and scattering.
Industry:Engineering
The flow layer, several grain diameters thick (usually taken as two grain diameters thick), immediately above the bed.
Industry:Engineering
An arch dam in which the angle subtended by any horizontal section is constant throughout the whole height of the dam.
Industry:Engineering
An established gage height within a given river reach above which a rise in water surface level is defined as a flood.
Industry:Engineering
A graphical representation of flow lines and equipotential (piezometric) lines used in the study of seepage phenomena.
Industry:Engineering
Lower part of a structure that transmits loads directly to the soil. The excavated surface upon which a dam is placed.
Industry:Engineering
Having to do with the mechanical properties of water in motion and the application of these properties in engineering.
Industry:Engineering
Small dike or dam used in the furrow alongside an irrigation border to make the water spread evenly across the border.
Industry:Engineering
A curve showing the distribution of the excess hydrostatic pressure at a given time during a process of consolidation.
Industry:Engineering
