BOARD02022

• Board Meeting Date: 3/11/1959
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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In General Hydraulics, we have something
over a quarter of a mil,lion tied up under con-
tract with the Titan Missle, liquid oxygen,
liquid hitrogen, and so on.

Dredge pumps. We are serving Colorado
and Nebraska industry in research associated
with the motion or transport of solid mater-
ials. This is important in that it is direct-
ly related to, say using the hydraulic method
of construction of earth filled dams, for
example.

Flow measuring devices is a major pro-
gram here. We have, at the present time re-
search going on on six different types of flow
metering devices.

Model studies are a very large segment of
our program. These are, to a large extent, ap-
plied research. However, with every applied
research project, we tie in a certain amount of
fundamental research that will be of benefit
to the profession as a whole. The model study
program is largely for interest outside of the
continental boundaries of the United States;
however at the present time we do have one, a
spillway for the second stage of the Dillon
Dam for the Denver Water Board that is of
local interest.

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Then we have a computer and certain pro-
grams associated with it. One of them is just
getting under way and that is the development
of programming technique for the design of
arched dams, such as, say, Glen Canyon and
Hoover by computer technique.

Forest media, fluid mechanics, drainage,
we have three problems under way, projects.
Mort Bittinger, who is sitting back here, and
I believe he has worked quite closely with Mr.
Gildersleeve of your Board, is engaged in a
program down here near Ft. Lupton. He has also
been working over in the Bijou area, the re-
lationship between surface flows and ground
water and the associated economics which our
Economic Department is working on.