Intze Principle
Intze Principle
Intze Principle
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IntzePrinciple
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TheIntzePrinciple(German:IntzePrinzip)isthenamegiventotwodifferentengineeringprinciples.
Botharenamedafterthehydraulicengineer,OttoIntze,(18431904).Intheonecase,theIntzePrinciple
relatestoatypeofwatertowerintheother,atypeofdam.
Contents
1IntzePrincipleforwatertowers
2IntzePrinciplefordams
3Seealso
4References
5Externallinks
IntzePrincipleforwatertowers
AwatertowerbuiltinaccordancewiththeIntzePrinciplehasabrickshaft
onwhichthewatertanksits.Thebaseofthetankisfixedwitharinganchor
(Ringanker)madeofironorsteel,sothatonlyvertical,nothorizontal,
forcesaretransmittedtothetower.Duetothelackofhorizontalforcesthe
towershaftdoesnotneedtobequiteassolidlybuilt.[1]Thistypeofdesign
wasusedinGermanybetween1885and1905.
WatertanksdesignedontheIntzePrinciple
SalbkeWaterTowerbuiltto
theIntzePrinciple
Intze1tank
Intze1tankwithinside Intze2tank
cylinder
IntzePrinciplefordams
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ThemethodofdamconstructioninventedbyOttoIntzewasusedin
Germanyattheendofthe19thandbeginningofthe20thcenturies.
AdambuiltontheIntzePrinciplehasthefollowingfeatures:
itisagravitydamwithanalmosttriangularcrosssection
thewallismadeofrubblestonewithahighproportionof
mortar
ithasacurvedgroundplan
ithasfacingbrickwork(VorsatzmauerwerkorVerblendung)
Intzewedge
ontheupperpartoftheupstreamside
ithasanearthembankmentagainstthelowerpartoftheupstreamside,thesocalledIntzeWedge
(IntzeKeil)[2]
ithasacementsealedupstreamface,coatedwithalayerofbitumenortar
ithasinternalverticaldrainageusingclaypipesbehindtheupstreamface
Seealso
ListofdamsinGermany
References
1. "zagermann.deWassertrme:Bauformen"(http://www.zagermann.de/proj/waturm/baufrmn.html).
zagermann.de.Retrieved9March2015.
2. "Ruhrverband:TechnischeAngaben"(http://www.ruhrverband.de/fluesse
seen/talsperren/moehnetalsperre/technischeangaben/).ruhrverband.de.Retrieved9March2015.
Externallinks
OttoIntzeandwatertowerconstruction(http://watertowers.de/Bauformendeutsch.htm)
OttoIntzeanddamconstruction(http://www.oih.rwthaachen.de/WOHNHEIM/otto_intze.html)
Intzetanksatwassertuerme.gmxhome.de(http://www.wassertuerme.gmxhome.de/Beh%E4lter.html)
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