Stepped chutes lined with wedge-shaped concrete blocks: hydrodynamic pressures on blocks and stability analysis - Relvas, António T; Pinheiro, António N (Canadian journal of civil engineering, 2011)
Keywords: analyse de stabilité; Analysis; Applied sciences; barrage en terre; bloc biseauté; Building structure; Buildings. Public works; canal en échelon; Civil engineering; Concrete; Concrete blocks; Concrete structure; Construction (buildings and works); Dams and subsidiary installations; distribution de la pression hydraulique; Drainage; Earth dams; embankment dam; Embankments; Exact sciences and technology; Flow characteristics; Flow velocity; fluctuations de pression; Fluid mechanics; Hydraulic constructions; Hydraulic jump; hydrodynamic pressure distribution; Mechanical properties; Pressure; pressure fluctuations; pressure transducer; Stability analysis; stepped channel; Structural stability; transducteur de pression; Uplift pressure; Water flow; wedge-shaped block; Canada; Embankments; Hydrodynamic pressure; Structural stability; Pressure distribution; Step dams; Concrete cover; Experimental study; Hydraulic jump; Precast concrete block