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(2327) Dam
A barrier usually on an important scale across a watercourse, for the purpose of impounding water or creating a reservoir (i) to raise water level, (ii) to divert water therefrom into a conduit or channel, (iii) to create a hydraulic head that can be used to generate power, (iv) to improve river navigability by means of regulated releases of stored water, and (v) to retain debris.
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Dictionary - Dams and Reservoirs Terms
- Fault dam spring
- Groundwater dam
- Retention dams
- Quondam
- Detention dam
- Diversion dam
- Sudd, or Sadd (Arabic : barrier or dam)
- Basket dam
- Sausage dam
- Crib, Crib dam, Pigsty work, Pigstying
- Sill dam
- Closed weir, Overflow diversion dam, Fixed crest weir, Blind weir, or Ungated weir
- Open weir, or Open diversion dam
- Fixed buttress weir, Ambursen dam or Ambursen weir
- Dam
- Check dam
- Masonry dam
- Masonry-cum-earth dam
- Framed dam
- Timber dam
- Steel dam
- Gravity dam, Solid gravity dam, Curved gravity dam, or Gravity arch dam
- Straight gravity dam
- Buttress dam
- Flat slab buttress dam, Flat deck dam, Deck dam, Slab and buttress dam, ,Fixed slab buttress dam, Fixed deck dam, Free deck dam, or Cantilever buttress dam
- Truss buttress dam
- Columnar buttress dam
- Multiple arch-buttress dam
- Deckless buttress dam, Massive head buttress dam
- Multiple dome buttress dam
- Cupola dam
- Hollow dam
- Conoidal dam
- Prestressed dam
- Arch dam, Arched dam, or Massive arch dam
- Constant radius arch dam, Constant centre arch dam, or Constant centre dam
- Constant angle arch dam
- Variable radius arch dam, or Variable centre dam
- Arch dam in series
- Earth dam, or Embankment dam
- Hydraulic fill dams
- Semi-hydraulic fill dam
- Rolled-fill dam, or Rolled-earthfill dam
- Homogeneous earth dam
- Modified homogeneous earth dam
- Composite earth dam, Multiple-zoned earth dam, or Zoned earth dam
- Rockfill dam
- Core-wall type rockfill dam
- Composite type rockfill dam, or Earth-and-rockfill dam
- Coffer dam
- Overflow dam, or Overfall dam
- Non-overflow dam
- Solid dam, or Blind dam
- Sluice dam
- Limpet dam, or Leech dam
- Length of dam, or Crest length
- Structural height of dam, or Maximum height of dam
- Volume (dam)
- Dam axis, Axis of dam, or Axis
- Top of the dam, or Crest level of the dam
- Central angle of arch dam
- Trial load twist method (for gravity dams)
- Unit column method (for buttress dam)
- Groyne head distributor, or Groyne dam distributor
- Temporary check dam, or Bag check
- Average annual damage, Expected annual damage, or Mathematical expectation value of damages
- Stage-damage curve
- Synthetic depth/damage data
- Bituminous macadam
- Land coffer dam
- Water coffer dam
- Earth (dike)-coffer dam, or Earthfill coffer dam
- Single-wall coffer dam
- Rockfill coffer dam, or Rock dike coffer dam
- Rock-filled double-wall coffer dam
- Rock-filled crib coffer dam
- Double-wall coffer dam
- Double-wall wood coffer dam, or Double-wall timber sheeted coffer dam
- Ohio (river)-type coffer dam
- Double-wall pile sheeting coffer dam
- Cellular coffer dam
- Diaphragm cellular coffer dam
- Circular cellular coffer dam
- Shot drill, Adamantine drill, Shot drilling, Adamantine drilling
- Pressure regulating reservoirs
- Wire dam, or Wire-wrapped dam
- Soil-saving dam
- Filter dam
- Dam break analysis
- Estuary dam
- Liquidated damages
