Kolnbrein Dam |
| Kolnbrein Dam is an arch
dam.
It is more than 25 houses high.
It holds back a lake of more than 350 million bathtubs of water.
It is almost five houses wide at the bottom.
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The dam is located in Austria.
The dam has many purposes:
- to control flooding
- to create power
- to provide people with drinking water
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| The Kolnbrein Dam cracked on both sides. The
engineers tried many different things to stop the cracking. They even tried
to freeze the crack to stop it from growing. This is a photo of the
cracking. |  |
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Click here to see an animation
of a crack growing in a arch dam.  |
Click the forward arrow to learn
about the last example of a cracked dam that failed.
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