It was built as a concrete arch-gravity dam, meaning it benefits from the physics of the arch while also having the strength and thickness of a gravity dam. Dworshak Dam was initially planned as ...

At 710 feet tall, this concrete arch-gravity dam near Page, Arizona fills a canyon-heavy region on the upper Colorado River with water. Under construction from 1956 to 1966, ...

About an hour’s drive outside of the city of Erzurum, the impoundment at the double-arch concrete dam, located in the midst of these mountains, is slowly filling with water from the Çoruh River ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Multiple Arch Concrete Dam ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 117 No. 10 (September 1917), p. 172 doi:10.1038 ...

Glen Canyon Dam holds back Lake Powell in Page, Ariz., on July 18. Glen Canyon Dam is the second-highest concrete arch dam in the United States at 710 feet tall.

Growing up, we got to play with all kinds of things in miniature. Cars, horses, little LEGO houses, the lot. What we didn’t get is a serious education with miniature-sized dams. This recreati… ...

At 270 meters high, with the world’s thinnest 300-meter concrete arch dam and 12 massive 850 MW turbo generators, this engineering marvel sets global records.

The Hoover Dam, constructed between 1930 and 1936, sits in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between the Nevada and Arizona and is the highest concrete arch dam in the United ...