Concrete dams are like dams shut-off buildings of dam concrete dams of concrete or brick-work are made; therefore they have a relatively small road-contact area and a steep water and downstream faces. The water side is mostly even perpendicular.

On the other hand dams from ground connection or stone material are up-poured. Therefore they have relatively flat embankments.

Accordingly higher loads arise in the road-contact area of concrete dams, so that the underground must be able to take up larger forces.

Concrete dams divide on in

• Gravity dams,
• Elbow rope walls,
• Elbow weight walls,
• Dam buttresses,
• as well as combined special forms.

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