Q. Multiple arch dams are generally used for ______________

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Q. Which of the following dam requires no reinforcement?

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Q. Which of the following dam is also known as the Amberson dam?

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Q. Which of the following component of a buttress dam is also called counterfort?

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Q. Which of the following type of dam requires very strong and stable foundations and is not in use as much as the other types?

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Q. Which of the following is the earliest recorded multiple arch buttress dam?

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Q. In a simple deck slab buttress dam of a given height, the buttress spacing can be increased by increasing the upstream slope.

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Q. The buttresses of a free deck buttress dam are provided at ‘x’ m clear spacing and buttress thickness is proposed to be ‘t’ m. The buttress section can then be designed like the section of a concrete gravity dam by considering the effective unit weight of water = Surcharge factor (S) x actual unit weight of water. The value of this surcharge factor is given as _____________

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Q. What is the suggested economic buttress spacing for a mean dam height of greater than 45 m?

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Q. What is the suggested slenderness ratio for simply supported RCC decks?

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Q. What is suggested massiveness factor for simply supported RCC Decks?

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