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Guri Dam Mass Concrete Studies

Raphael, Jerome M.; Pirtz, David; Polivka, Milos

UCB/SESM-1976/07, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1976-12, 58 pages

Reports on engineering properties of mass concretes using two different cement materials and provides results of creep tests for the Guri Dam, a concrete gravity dam on the Caroni River in Venezuela.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-76-07.pdf (3 MB)