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Purpose: This manual sets forth design criteria and procedures to be used for fire protection systems at USACE navigation locks. The fire hazards addressed herein are those presented by commercial vessels, tows, and recreational craft. The protection to be provided …Read More

Purpose: This manual is issued for guidance of individuals and elements within the Corps of Engineers engaged in the structural planning, layout, and design of navigation dams for civil works projects. The structural design of gates is not covered in …Read More

Purpose: This manual is issued for guidance of engineers and design offices within the Corps of Engineers engaged in the planning, engineering layout, analysis, and design of navigation locks for civil works navigation projects on inland waterways.

Purpose: This manual provides information on foundation exploration and testing procedures, analysis techniques, allowable criteria, design procedures, and construction consideration for the selection, design, and installation of sheet pile walls. The guidance is based on the present state of the …Read More

Purpose: Provisions for the design of sheet pile cellular cofferdams are set forth in ER 1110-2-2901. This manual is intended to provide guidance for the design of these structures. Geotechnical considerations, analysis and design procedures, construction considerations, and instrumentation are …Read More

Purpose: This manual provides guidance for the safe design and economical construction of retaining and flood walls. This manual is intended primarily for retaining walls which will be subjected to hydraulic loadings such as flowing water, submergence, wave action, and …Read More

Purpose:  This manual provides guidance for the planning and structural design and analysis of intake structures and other outlet works features used on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects of flood control, water supply, water quality and temperature control, recreation, …Read More

Purpose: This manual establishes criteria and presents guidance for the selection, evaluation, and use of large-stone materials in construction.

Purpose: This manual establishes criteria and provides guidance for the investigations preceding test quarries, for the development of test quarries, and for the planning and conduct of compacted test fill programs at civil works projects.

Purpose: This manual presents fundamental principles underlying the design and construction of earth and rock-fill dams. The general principles presented herein are also applicable to the design and construction of earth levees. The construction of earth dams by hydraulic means …Read More

Purpose: This manual provides information and guidance on the design, analysis, and construction of concrete arch dams.

Purpose: The purpose of this manual is to provide technical criteria and guidance for the planning and design of concrete gravity dams for civil works projects.