Hoover Dam: Construction milestones in concrete delivery and placement, steel fabrication, and job site safety

Hoover Dam: 75th Anniversary History Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 163-188

  Rogers, J David ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE DELIVERY; CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING; JOB SITE SAFETY; LARGE-SCALE PROJECTS; MASS CONCRETE; STEEL FABRICATION; STEEL PENSTOCKS; STRUCTURAL CONCRETES;

PENSTOCKS; TRENCHING;

CONCRETES;

EID: 84890897676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41141(390)9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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