ABSTRACT
The distribution of the loads resulted in a considerable relief for the lower arches, while the upper ones had to support partially the cantilever. The new method of analysis had been developed in the late 1880s by Hubert Vischer and Luther Wagoner (1847-1922) for checking the stresses in the Bear Valley and Sweetwater dams, but was published in a local journal and thus escaped general attention26. The latter was achieved only after the publication of the method in 1904 by Silas H. Woodard (1870-1961)27, who had formulated it anew while designing the Cheesman curved gravity dam 60km south of Denver, Colorado, which incidentally is also the headquarters of the US Bureau of Reclamation.
