uplift pressure is 100 per cent at heel, 50 per cent at line of gallery and zero at toe, weight of concrete is 2.5 tons per cubic metre. Considering only weight, water pressure and uplift, calculate the maximum vertical stresses at the toe and heel of dam. Take coefficient of uplift pressure as 1.

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A concrete gravity dam has maximum water level 205.0 m, bed level 126.0 m, top R.L. of dam 210.0
m, downstream face slope starts at R.L. 200.0 m, downstream slope 2:3, tail water is nil, upstream
face of dam is vertical, centre line of drainage gallery is 8 m downstream of upstream face, uplift
pressure is 100 per cent at heel, 50 per cent at line of gallery and zero at toe, weight of concrete is 2.5
tons per cubic metre. Considering only weight, water pressure and uplift, calculate the maximum
vertical stresses at the toe and heel of dam. Take coefficient of uplift pressure as 1.

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