Operation and Function of the Mead Hydraulic Laboratory, Mead, Nebraska.

Abstract

1. The Mead Hydraulic Laboratory is located at the University of Nebraska Field Laboratory near Mead, Nebraska (Plate I). It is operated as a joint use project under a special lease arrangement between the University and the Missouri River Division of the Corps of Engineers. The primary facility consists of a model area and related equipment utilized by the Corps of Engineers for investigations of structures for the development and maintenance of the navigable channel of the Missouri River. 2. This facility was designed specifically to permit rapid evaluation of improvements and expedients suggested to develop the constructed channel to optimum efficiency. Typical investigations may be as follows:

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1969
Accession Number
ADA364855

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Corps of Engineers

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Boundaries
  • Bridges
  • Construction
  • Engineers
  • Fluids
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Missouri River
  • Model Basins
  • Models
  • Particles
  • Sedimentation
  • Shape
  • Specific Gravity
  • Transducers

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design