| References: Information collected during the field trip in the Sierra Nevada, as part of the "Engineering Geology" course curriculum, instructed by Professor N. Sitar, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley. |
| Close picture of dental concrete surface in dams |
| This is just a detail of the surface of the dental concrete from the construction of the Auburn Dam. You can easily observe that the surface is very rough. This will help in the binding of the new concrete with the old one. The non-existence of smooth surfaces of old with new concrete in concrete dams is a very important issue, because these surfaces consist planes of weakness under the applied load. |
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