- Industry: Government
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A U.S. Department of the Interior agency that oversees water resource management incuding the oversight and operation of numerous diversion, delivery, and storage projects the agency has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power ...
That acceleration which is most closely related to structural response and to damage potential of an earthquake.
Industry:Engineering
A buttress dam with buttresses which support the flat slab of reinforced concrete which forms the upstream face.
Industry:Engineering
Triangular-shaped landforms along mountain ranges formed by erosion of steeply inclined rock layers or hogbacks.
Industry:Engineering
Of or pertaining to rivers; growing or living in a stream or river; produced by the action of a stream or river.
Industry:Engineering
To coat a metal (especially iron or steel) with zinc. Galvanization is the process of coating a metal with zinc.
Industry:Engineering
Coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with less quartz and more feldspar than true granite and typically darker.
Industry:Engineering
Total amount of electrical energy produced by a generating station or stations, measured at generator terminals.
Industry:Engineering
Very coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock of granitic composition that typically fills fractures to form veins.
Industry:Engineering
Sand deposit located where downstream flow meets the channel bank at the downstream end of a recirculating zone.
Industry:Engineering
A subsidiary dam of any type constructed across a saddle or low point on the perimeter of a reservoir. See dike.
Industry:Engineering
