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Luke Snell, P.E.
Concrete Consultant
Edwardsville, IL
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Area Around the Hoover Dam
• Extreme temperatures up to 125 F
• Sunshine almost every day
• Rainfall about 4 inches per year
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Early Settlers were probably Hohokam
Indians.
• Believed to have become the Tohono O’Odham
Indians
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First European Explorers
• Were Spanish Conquistadors/Catholic Missionaries
• Major barrier to development - Colorado River and
Grand Canyon
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Following Mexican War (1848)
• The USA “acquired” Arizona, Nevada ,New
Mexico and California
• Serious exploration began of this region
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• 1850 California Imperial Valley already wanted
water from the Colorado River
• 1901 California Development Company
constructed canals
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• Created mistrust between California and
Nevada and Arizona, “They (California)
want to steal our water!”
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Time Line Pre Construction
• 1902 - Bureau of Reclamation begins study
of dam sites
• 1918 – Investigation of a “High Dam” for
water storage and flood control
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Pre Construction Timeline, cont.
1920 – Seven states discuss dam
– Herbert Hoover (Secretary of Commerce under
President Harding) served as the Government’s
representative
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• Called the project, “The Boulder Canyon
Project,” even before the site was selected!
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Two sites were selected as meeting the geological
requirements for a high dam:
* Boulder Canyon
* Black Canyon
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Pre Construction Timeline, cont.
• 1924 - Selection of the Black Canyon for
dam site
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Pre Construction Timeline, cont.
• 1924 – Design of a concrete arch gravity
structure proposed
• 1928 –Engineering and Geological review
completed
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• 1930 – Congress appropriated funds for the
Construction
* 119 bid items
* Specifications were 100 pages with 76 drawings
* $5 per set
Pre Construction Timeline, cont.
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Pre Construction Timeline, cont.
* 3.7 million cubic yards of rock
* 4.4 million cubic yards of concrete
* 45 million tons of structural steel
and pipe
* 7 year construction schedule
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Pre Construction Timeline, cont.
• Major Problems
* $2,000,000 bid bond
* $5,000,000 performance bond,
if awarded contract
Money was difficult to raise in
Depression times
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Bond requirements
• Too big for western companies
• Had to form alliances
• Most contractors gave up before bidding
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• Government to provide cement and steel
• Contractor to provide manpower, machinery,
tools, vehicles and supplies
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Bids opened on March 4, 1931
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First Bid
Edwin A. Smith, Kentucky
$80,000 less than lowest bid you get
No Bid Bond
Bid was invalid
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Second Bid
• John Bernard Simon Company,
New York
• $200 Million or Cost plus 10%
• No Bid Bond
• Bid was invalid
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Third Bid
• Arundel Corporation, Maryland
• $53.9 Million
• Bid Bond provided
• Bid was valid
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Fourth Bid
• Wood Brother Company, Nebraska
• $58.6 Million
• Bid Bond provided
• Bid was valid
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Fifth Bid
• Six Companies, California
• $48,890,955
• Bond provided
• Bid was valid
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• Engineering estimate - $48,857,000
• Although about $34,000 above the
engineering estimate
• Project awarded to the Six Companies
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– Morrison Knudsen
– Utah Construction
– Pacific Bridge Company
– J.F. Shea
– McDonald & Kahn
• Partnership of:
–Henry Kaiser Co.
–Warren Bros Paving
–Bechtel
Six Companies, Inc.
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Why was their bid successful?
• Required to place 3.4 million cubic yards
(CY) of concrete
• Six Companies bid $2.70 per CY
• $1.35 per CY less than Arundel (second
bid)
• $0.55 less than Engineers’ estimates
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Why Successful ?
Bid was front loaded – Six Companies planned
to make money on the tunneling
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Start of work
Started to mobilize as soon as bids were
opened by the insistence of the Federal
Government.
The government felt they had to get work
going to ease the 25% unemployment rate.
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Infrastructure to be Built
• Houses
• Provide power
• Dorms
• Dining facilities
• Hospital
• Police
• Fire department
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People needed jobs
Created Ragtown
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Hoover Dam Worker Wages
-
0.200
0.400
0.600
0.800
Jackhammer
men
Truck
Drivers
Cement
Finisher
Laborers American
Crane
Operator
$/p
er
ho
ur
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1930's Comparable Wages
-
0.200
0.400
0.600
0.800
1.000
1.200
1.400
1.600
Engin
eer
Coa
l Miner
Lawye
r
Bus D
river
Civi
l Ser
vice
$/p
er
ho
ur
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Working conditions were horrible by
today’s standards.
The workforce attempted to unionize and
strike for safer working conditions.
This resulted in them being fired.
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Challenges to Project
• 100 F + Temperatures
• 24 hour construction schedule
• (pleasure to work the night shift?)
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Working the Night Shift
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• Police – Prohibition still “enforced”
– Majority of crimes were drunkenness
• Hospital – Dealt with accidents from
Construction Site
– State of the Art Orthopedic Care Unit
• Dorms – ($1.60 per day)
• Married Housing Cottages - $30 per
month
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Dining Hall
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Taking People to Work
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Aggregates
• Found alluvial about 6 miles up stream in
Arizona
– Excavated by dragline
– Moved by rail to screening and wash
plant in Nevada
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Aggregates, Cont.
• Screening into 4 sizes
– Fine
– Intermediate
– Coarse
– Cobble – 3-9 inch diameter
• If over 9 inches it was crushed, re-screened
• Moved to batch plant by rail.
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Batch Plants
• Operational in 1932
– Provided concrete for tunnels
• First concrete in Dam June 6, 1933
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Second Batch Plant
• Added at the
canyon rim
• Produced all
concrete in top part
of the dam
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“Modern” Batching Facility
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Central Batch Plant
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Batching Details
• 4 cubic yard central mixers
• Capable of producing 24 cubic yards every
3 minutes
• Record total daily placement was over
10,000 cubic yards
• Four gradation’s of aggregate blended
together to give economy and workability
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Details on Concrete Mixture
• Used Type IV Cement
– Reduced C3A (lots of heat, little strength)
– Increased C2S (slow strength gains)
• Thus reducing the heat of hydration as
much as possible
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Mixture Design - General
• Cement - 4 sacks
• Maximum size aggregate - 9 inches
• W/C ratio - 0.58
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Mixture Design – Detail(pounds per cubic yard)
Cement 380 Type IV
Fly Ash 0
Fine Aggregate 931
Coarse Aggregate 2679 Limestone and Granite maximum
size 9 inches
Water 220
W/C Ratio 0.58
Air Entrainment 0
Water Reducers 0
Slump 3”
Density 155.9 pcf
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Final Concrete Properties
Compressive Strength PSI
28 Day 3030
90 Day 3300
365 Day 4290
Modulus of Elasticity 106 psi
28 Day 5.5
90 Day 6.2
365 Day 6.8
Poisson Ratio 28 Day 0.18
90 Day 0.20
365 Day 0.21
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Concrete moved to
jobsite by 4 and 8
cubic yard buckets
Superintendent
Frank Crowe was
an expert on aerial
cableways
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A relatively new concept
• Concrete placed using internal vibrators to
consolidate concrete
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Concrete Construction
• Series of 5 feet high
blocks with horizontal
and vertical key ways
– Varied between 25
to 60 square feet
• Concrete to cure 72
hours before next lift
• No more than 7 lifts
in 30 days
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Curing
• Dam was water cured
During the summer, 20
men’s sole job was to
spray water on the
dam’s surface.
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Cooling Concrete
• If Hoover Dam was
placed in a continuous
placement method, the
heat stress would crack
the dam.
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Cooling Concrete, Cont.
• Experiments by the Bureau of Reclamation
at Owyhee Dam in Idaho used piping
throughout the concrete
• Used cooled water to remove heat
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Cooling Concrete, Cont.
• At Hoover Dam – built in sections, one inch pipes were installed by looping thru concrete
– River Water
– Refrigerated Water
• When cooling in a section was completed, cooling pipes were cut off and pressure grouted
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Piping to cool concrete
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Cooling Concrete, Cont.
• By 1935, cooling was completed
• 590 miles of piping was used in the dam
• 159 billion BTU removed through cooling
process
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Testing of Concrete
• Excellent Quality Control due to the state of the art
testing facilities
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Testing of Concrete, cont
Used 36” x 72” cylinders for design
Wanted 4 times maximum size of the
aggregates
Had 4,000,000 pound testing machine
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Mass concrete cylinder with apparatus for
measuring longitudinal and lateral deformations
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Mix 1-2.45-7.05 by weight with 9 inch aggregate.
-W/C = 0.81 by volume 3 inch slump
Typical Double - Cone Failure of
36” x 72” Cylinder
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Typical Cone failures from 36”, 24”, 12” and 8”
cylinders
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Safety Issues
• No one is entombed in the concrete
• Deaths during construction
– 96 people, not counting heat related
deaths
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Major cause of deaths – not recorded
Heat prostration killed one worker every other day
– summer 1931
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Major Study on Heat Related
Sickness
Workers need to drink water
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Safety Issues, Cont.
• State of Arizona paid more than the State of
Nevada in death benefits.
– Injured/Dead workers carried to Arizona
– Stories of injured workers crawling to
Arizona
– Debated by experts if this is true
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Last concrete placed May 29th, 1935
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Remains of the Construction
• Divers’ Paradise
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Aggregate Washing FacilityUnderwater
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Aggregate Washing FacilityDuring Construction
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Gravel Plant/RailroadUnderwater
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Gravel Plant/RailroadDuring Construction
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Core from Hoover Dam
At Portland Cement Association
Headquarters
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Acknowledgements to
Billie Snell
for her research