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Roy W. Carlson
Roy W. Carlson
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This experience whetted a keen interest in concrete dam design that was furthered while serving as an inspector of construction and testing of the Stevenson Creek Test Dam, also in the Sierra Nevada, during 1925 and 1926. This dam was built as a research tool to supplement the technology then used in designing arch clams.
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CarIson wrote fifty-six technical papers that were published by various professional societies. The subjects were principally design and testing of remote sensing instruments for measuring stress, strain, temperature, pore pressure, similitude requirements for model construction and testing, structural action in clams and bridges, safety of dams, concrete technology, chemistry of cement and concrete, and methods of structural analysis.
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Carlson was the clonor of several auxiliary facilities of the Engineering Department of the University of California, Berkeley. He owned patents on the CarIson Strain Meter #2,036,45S, Electric Pressure Meters #2,059,549, Stress Meters #2,14S,013, and stress meter for soils en cl granular materials #3,529,468.
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