WSP01342

• File Number: 8220.200.05.J
• Description: Hoover Dam/Lake Mead/Boulder Canyon Project
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1939
• Author: USDOI/BOR
• Title: Boulder Canyon Project Final Reports: Part V/ Bulletin 3 - Model Tests of Boulder Dam
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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CONTENTS

SECTION PAGE
Introductory statement ..........._.u.._............"n............n..nn..........n..._n.. ._...n..'n..... 11
Engineertng organization during construction.................__...........__.......__....... vi
Foreword ._................._........u..................h...._.n.................____......m...h.. ............__....__.. vii
Contents ..n........__.._.......__...__...........__.....___... ..,..n_..____.. ......n_..................__........__..____.. 1
Ust of figures..... .........._.......,u_......__........_n..................__........__...........................__.... 11
List 01 tab!es................,................................................................................................ 17

CHAPTER I-INTRODUCTION

1 General .............m..............nn......__.....................n. .................__......___..... .,n.......'"","'" 19
2 Scope of Bulletin.,..............................................._,............................ ....................... 19

MODElL THEORY

3 Model requirements ,................................................................. ............................... 20
4 Similarity rela.tions .................................................................................................. 21

EARLY MODElL TESTS
5 Stevenson Creek modeL.................................................................. ........................ 22
6 Gibson model tests.......,..........................................................,........... ..................... 22

INVESTIGATION OF MATERIALS

7 Preliminary tests ........... ........,.............. ................................ ................................. 23
8 Plaster-celite materials ......................._.......................................,......................... 24
9 Rubber- and litharge materiaL................................ ............................................... 2_5

BOULDER DAM TESTS
10 Plaster model tests......................................._....................,..............."'m ................. 2-6
11 Rubber m.odel tests.......,........................................n.................................................... 27
12 ACknowledgments .................................................................................................... 28
Blbliograpby .................... ........................................................................................... 28

CHAPTER II-INVESTIGATION OF MATERIALS

INTRODUCTION

13 Purpose of tests........ ................................................................................................. 31
14 S:t>ecimens .................................,........................ ......................................................... 31
15 Testing apparatus ...........................mh........................................n.......................,.... 32
16 Scope of investigation................... ..........,............................................................... 34

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