Jacob H.
That's right. As long as the geometric shapes of structures are the same as those for
which the design criteria charts were developed, there are no changes in the design
criteria. The design criteria needs to be changed only when structures and other factors
are different.
Did the Corps have these design criteria for many years, or did they come in during the
and
Design criteria charts were not available in the
and
So they had no design criteria at all then?
The Corps had no design criteria charts. The Bureau had some design manuals, and that's
how I got the idea that the Corps ought to have some, also. As I mentioned earlier, Frank
Campbell was at the Bureau, and he knew about them. Campbell always expressed a very
strong feeling about the Corps' having a lot of information that should be used to prepare
design criteria charts and manuals. I got him aboard, and his group did that.
Down at WES, you said.
Yes. WES still has some people working on that. As more information became available,
they put out more design criteria. But not as much as they did the first 20 years after
Frank went down there.
It's sort of hard to believe that when you have an organization that's supposed to be as
professional as the Corps that they didn't have anything like those design criteria.
Well, they were just getting into the business of building dams.
Big dams?
Yes. Big dams and other things. They had many other things to do.
You mean like the navigation business?
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