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Limiting Height of Elementary Profile

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The maximum height of a gravity dam of elementary profile to be built by concrete of relative density = 2.4, on a foundation material of safe allowable stress = 7.5 MPa, by ignoring the uplift force is

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319 m

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484 m

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125 m

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225 m

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Solution

The correct option is D 225 m
$H = \frac{f}{γ_{w} (G + 1 - C)}$

$= \frac{7.5 \times 10^{3}}{9.81 (2.4 + 1 - 0)}$

$= 224.86 m$

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