Las Cruces is a small city located in Dona Anna county, southern New Mexico. Recently, this city is experiencing rapid population growth and infrastructural development. Physiographically, the city lies in Rio Grande valley and its eastern extension is bound by Organ mountain range. This will cause flood storm during the rainy season and pose risk to public safety and their property in a proposed area. Due to the age, lack of proper maintenance and recent significant downstream development, existing flood control dam in proposed may not be adequate. Therefore, in order to protect people and economic infrastructures, construction of a new flood control dam, named as South Dona Anna Dam, is proposed.
This project is chosen for the fulfillment of requirement of CE 485 design project. The proposed dam is located in City of Las Cruces, Dona Ana County, New Mexico. The center of dam axis is located at lat 32023’28.25’’ and long 106047’55.34’’. Elevation of the area varies from 4000 ft in the southern part to 5833 ft in northern part and the annual rainfall is less than 9 inches. The catchments were found to be 185920000 square feet with 16 sub-basins/ reaches.
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O documento, com 189 laudas, sendo que nas últimas 15 relaciona 163 citações biográficas às quais recorreu para respaldar suas conclusões,além de longo é de difícil leitura pela quantidade de termos técnicos. Contesta laudos oficiais e depoimentos.
This is prestigious Godrej S Karai Oration I delivered in the annual conference of IACVTS -Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgons few years back.Thoracic Surgery is neglected cousin of Cardiac Surgery in India but it is equally important for patients and students.I hope this ppp will stimulate the minds of younger CVT Surgons .
Parecer Técnico-Científicodo perito independente Leví Inimá de MirandaMarcelo Auler
O documento, com 189 laudas, sendo que nas últimas 15 relaciona 163 citações biográficas às quais recorreu para respaldar suas conclusões,além de longo é de difícil leitura pela quantidade de termos técnicos. Contesta laudos oficiais e depoimentos.
This is prestigious Godrej S Karai Oration I delivered in the annual conference of IACVTS -Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgons few years back.Thoracic Surgery is neglected cousin of Cardiac Surgery in India but it is equally important for patients and students.I hope this ppp will stimulate the minds of younger CVT Surgons .
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- Define an average settlement (at the centerline) of dam
under saturated / unsaturated soil condition
s- settlement (mm)
b - cone factor (3.5 for strip footing)
qnet - net footing pressure in kPa (applied stress minus soil pressure above
the base of footing)
Δzi - thickness of the ith layer (m)
(Ico)i –influence factor of the ith layer
qc - cone resistance taken from quasi-static cone test data (Mpa)
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- Estimation of final elastic settlement at the center and corner of
footing (with the sat/unsaturated soil in dam separately)
- Can not consider saturation condition of the ground soil
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r - settlement (m)
q - intensity of contact pressure in
units of Es (MPa)
B - least lateral dimension of footing
in units of r (m)
Iw – influence factor which depends
on shape of footing and its rigidity
Es, m - elastic properties of soil
t - time (T)
Tv - time factor
Cv - coefficient of consolidation (L2/T)
Hdr - drained length (L)
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Timoshenko-Goodier method:
Inclination in the top of dam = 0.0002 mm
Consolidation time:
Cv = 0.000101 cm2/sec
Time required for completion 93% of the maximum
settlement is to be 8927 years
((mmmm))
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Schmermann 32.2 39.9
Timoshenko-Goodier Center: 80.6 Center: 94.9
Corner: 41.8 Corner: 49.2
Estimation of settlement:
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Dam Construction: Cost Rate Amount Cost
Earthwork $9.00 per yd3 670 $6,030.00
Fill - Impervious Material $7.50 per ton 83000 $622,500.00
Fill - Gravelly Sand $7.50 per ton 73140 $548,550.00
Pre-Cast 36" Concrete Pipe $36.00 per foot 140 $5,040.00
Concrete In Place $160.00 per yd3 130.5 $20,880.00
Trash Rack (assuming Square) $15.00 per ft3 64 $960.00
Reinforcing Steel $562.00 per short ton 1.5 $843.00
Roller $600.00 per day 90 $54,000.00
Scraper $1,000.00 per day 90 $90,000.00
Machine operation $25.00 per hr 1440 $36,000.00
Human Labor $12.00 per hr 1 Year $345,600.00
Erosion Control $20.00 per linear foot 2000 $40,000.00
Overhead Costs $15,000.00 1 $15,000.00
Total $1,785,403.00
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