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Lessons from failures of concrete dams on rock foundations

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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 2, pp. 13–17, February, 1995.

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Kalustyan, É.S. Lessons from failures of concrete dams on rock foundations. Hydrotechnical Construction 29, 77–81 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01545000

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