Abstract:A number of impounding structures have been constructed in our country by means of blasting.The largest of them are the mudflow-control dam at Medeo, the dam of the Baipaza hydrodevelopment on the Vakhsh River, the height of which exceed 60 m, the 90-m-high dam on the Akh-Su River in Dagestan, coefferdams of the Nurek and Chlrkey hydrodevelopments, and a number of others.Thus the Soviet Union can rightfully be considered the pioneer of this method of constructing dams. Construction experience shows that the us… Show more
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