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https://hdl.handle.net/11681/11093| Title: | Alkali-silica reaction in concrete from Fontana Dam, North Carolina, Tennessee Valley Authority |
| Authors: | Tennessee Valley Authority. Buck, Alan D. Mather, Katharine. |
| Keywords: | Alkali-aggregate reactions Concrete dams Fontana Dam North Carolina Little Tennessee River Hydraulic structures |
| Publisher: | Structures Laboratory (U.S.) Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.) |
| Series/Report no.: | Miscellaneous paper (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station) ; SL-86-9. |
| Description: | Miscellaneous Paper Abstract: The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in 1973 requested petrographic examination of several concrete cores from Fontana Dam located in North Carolina to determine whether an alkali-silica reaction had occurred. A petrographic examination was made, and the results of it showed that there was evidence of alkali-silica reaction. While the evidence of reaction was conventional (gel, rims on aggregate particles, cracks), the type of aggregate was not one usually then thought to be reactive. The reactivity of this rock, with one variety variously described as quartzite or feldspathic muscovite schist or metamorphic subgraywacke and another variety as schist or phyllite, was probably due to the presence of large amounts of strained quartz. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11681/11093 |
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| MP-SL-86-9.pdf | 4.78 MB | Adobe PDF |  View/Open |