Hydraulic structures. Hydraulic structures: types, classification, operating rules, safety requirements

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1. General Provisions

The branch of science and technology that, through the development of special complexes of structures, equipment and devices, is engaged in the use of water resources and fights against their harmful effects, is called hydraulic engineering.

In hydraulic engineering, the following main branches of its application were determined:

the use of water energy, in which the energy of moving (falling) water is converted into mechanical, and then into electrical;

land reclamation (improvement) of lands by irrigation (irrigation) of dry areas and drainage of wetlands, as well as by protection from the harmful effects of water (flooding, waterlogging, erosion, etc.);

water transport - improvement of navigable conditions of rivers and lakes, construction of ports, locks, canals, etc.;

water supply and sewerage of populated areas and industrial enterprises.

All of the listed branches of hydraulic engineering are not isolated, but are closely interconnected and intertwined in the complex solution of water management problems.

According to their purpose, hydraulic structures are divided into general and special. The first, used in all branches of hydraulic engineering, include: water-lifting structures that create pressure and maintain it - dams, dams, etc.; culverts serving for useful water intake or discharge of excess water; water-carrying - channels, trays, pipelines and tunnels; regulatory - to regulate channels, protect banks from erosion, etc.; conjugating, serving for conjugation of pools and various hydraulic structures - drops, fast currents, abutments, separate bulls; ice- and slush-discharging and nano-removing. Special hydraulic structures used only under certain conditions include: hydropower - machine buildings of hydroelectric power stations, diversion structures; water transport - locks, canals, port facilities; hydroreclamation - water intakes, conduits, treatment facilities.

Hydraulic structures are usually erected as a complex of structures, including water-lifting, culvert, drainage, transport, energy, etc. Such a complex of structures is called a hydroelectric complex. Depending on the purpose, there may be energy, irrigation or navigable (transport) hydroelectric facilities. However, in most cases, complex hydroelectric facilities are built that simultaneously solve several water management problems.

Hydrotechnical construction creates an intensive engineering impact on natural conditions, changing the position of the erosion base of the surrounding territory on the reservoir site, causing a change in the conditions of nutrition and movement. groundwater, activating slope processes (landslides), changing the microclimate of the area, etc. In addition, the creation of reservoirs with a large supply of water can cause catastrophic flooding of the river valley below the structure in the event of an accident. All this requires a particularly careful study of the area where hydroelectric facilities are located.

In the design process, based on the purpose of structures and specific natural conditions, the choice of the most rational site for the location of the main structures of the hydroelectric complex, its layout, the choice of the type and parameters of water structures, the depth of insertion and support on the base rocks, the interface with the rock mass at the junction with the sides of the valley, as well as the scheme for the production of construction works.

The history of dams shows that those whose destruction caused terrible catastrophes collapsed in 2/3 of the cases, not due to errors in calculations or in the choice of material, but due to flaws in the foundations - on poor soils, often saturated with water, which was the result of insufficient awareness on the geological and hydrogeological conditions of the foundation soils. An example of this is the accident at the Vaiont reservoir in Italy.

In 1959, at the VI Congress on Large Dams, the Italian hydraulic engineers L. Semenza, N. Biadene, M Panchini reported on the world's highest arch dam on the river. Vaiont, 265.5 m high (70 km north of Venice). The report covered in great detail design features dams. To discharge flood waters on the crest of the dam, a spillway with 10 holes, each 6.6 m long, two tunnel and one bottom spillway was provided. To strengthen the foundation of the dam, an areal grouting of the rock is provided, with a drilling volume of 37,000 m3. To prevent seepage under the dam and on the banks, a grout screen was installed with a drilling volume of 50,000 m3. The calculation of the dam was carried out by 4 analytical methods (independent arches, test loads, etc.). In addition, the design of the dam was studied on two models at the Institute in Bergamo (scale 1:35). Model tests made it possible to lighten the dam due to some reduction in its thickness. About the geological conditions, it was only said that the Vayont valley is composed of limestones and dolomites, characteristic of the eastern Alps, that the layers fall upstream of the river and this is favorable for supporting the dam (Fig. 1).

The construction of the dam was completed in 1960, and on October 9, 1963, one of the worst disasters in the history of hydraulic engineering occurred, as a result of which more than 2,600 people died. The cause was a landslide that hit the reservoir. The world's tallest thin arch dam survived, all the calculations of the designers turned out to be correct. As the analysis of materials after the catastrophe showed: geologists did not take into account the fact that limestone layers form a synclinal fold, the axis of which coincides with the direction of the valley. At the same time, the northern flank is dissected by a fault. In 1960, a landslide with a volume of 1 million m3 formed on the left bank near the dam.

In 1960-1961. a 2-kilometer catastrophic spillway tunnel was breached if landslides resume. To monitor the development of landslide processes, a network was laid geodesic benchmarks, but as it turned out, the benchmark did not cut the main sliding surface. From 1961-1963 a continuous gravitational creep was observed. Late in the evening on October 9, 1963, 240 million m3 of soil moved into the reservoir in 30 seconds, at a speed of 15-30 m/s. A huge wave 270 meters high in 10 seconds crossed the 2-kilometer reservoir of the reservoir, overflowed the dam and, sweeping away everything in its path, collapsed into the valley. Seismic tremors were registered in Vienna and Brussels.

Rice. 1. Geological section of the valley of the river. Vaiont (Italy): 1 - Upper Cretaceous; 2 - lower chalk; 3 - malm; 4 - dogger; 5 - layas. Numbers in circles: 1 - main sliding surface; 2 - slumped block; 3 - fault; 4 - bottom of the glacial valley; 5 - direction of ancient cracks; 6 - direction of young cracks; 7 - reservoir

2. Waterworks

A hydroelectric power station on a flat river includes a hydroelectric power station. In order for the turbines of a hydroelectric power plant to work, not only a continuous flow of water is required, but also a head - the difference in levels between the upper and lower pools, i.e. sections of the river upstream and downstream of the hydroelectric power station. The pressure is concentrated in a convenient place for use as a result of the construction of a dam or other water retaining structure and filling the reservoir. These two elements are important components of the hydroelectric complex. The reservoir is also necessary to regulate the uneven flow of the river, bringing it into line with water consumption, i.e. in this case with a diagram of the electrical load of a hydroelectric power plant. Hydroelectric power plants on high-water lowland rivers are located in their channel and are called either channel low-pressure or near-dam, if the pressure is large enough.

Since it is not economically feasible to accumulate rare high-water floods in the reservoir, and since the consumption of electrical energy, i.e. the use of the water reserve may be interrupted due to an accident, the hydroelectric complex must have a spillway to pass water from the upstream to the downstream, in addition to turbines, in order to avoid overflowing the reservoir and overflowing water through the dam with the ensuing destructive consequences. The passage of water to the downstream, in addition to the turbines, in the event of stopping the units of a hydroelectric power plant, may also be necessary when the reservoir is not filled, if without the flow of this water, water users located down the river - hydroelectric power stations, water transport, irrigation systems, etc. will suffer damage. To solve this problem, culverts with deep holes - water outlets - are built as part of the hydroelectric complex.

The passage of water into the downstream may also be necessary for the purpose of emptying the reservoir for inspection and repair of the hydroelectric facilities. Then, in its composition, spillways with deep or bottom holes should be provided. In order to supply a large amount of water for its main purpose - to the turbines of a hydroelectric power station, having cleaned it of dangerous inclusions - ice, sludge, sediment, litter, etc., special structures are needed - water intakes.

A hydroelectric power station can be located on a mountain river not at the dam, but downstream on the shore; water is supplied to it from the water intake by a special conduit and diverted from it into the river also by a special conduit, which together are called derivation, and separately - inlet and outlet derivations. The purpose of the derivation device is the same as the construction of the dam, the concentration of pressure for its convenient use. In mountain rivers, water falls with a large slope of the surface, dissipating its potential energy. Laid along the coast with minimal slope the channel brings water to the hydroelectric power plant with a surface level not much different from the level of the upstream.

As a result, the station uses a greater pressure, the fall of a larger section of the river, not only due to the backwater of the dam, but also due to the difference in the slopes of the river and the channel. The role of diverting derivation is similar; the water level in it differs little from the water level in the river at the end of the derivation, so that at the beginning of the diverting derivation near the hydroelectric power station, the level is lower than nearby in a parallel-flowing river. Thus, the station acquires even greater pressure, using the fall of an additional section of the river. Derivative hydroelectric facilities have a large extent, therefore, they include a head unit with a dam, a spillway and a water intake, a station unit with a pressure basin that completes the inlet derivation, pipelines supplying water to the turbines, and a hydroelectric building and the previously mentioned derivation elements.

Rice. 2. Run-of-river low-pressure hydroelectric complex with a hydroelectric power station and a shipping lock

On fig. 3 shows a hydroelectric power plant with a short diversion channel on a mountain river. The head unit includes a concrete spillway dam, a water intake with a sedimentation sump. The station junction includes a pressure basin and an idle spillway. On fig. 9 shows, partly in section, an underground hydroelectric power plant with tunnel diversion. A high spillway dam, a deep water intake, as well as an equalization reservoir at the end of the pressure inlet part of the derivation are visible.

Rice. 3. Hydroelectric plant with diversion channel

In the presence of a dam, a hydroelectric complex should include spillways, as well as water outlets necessary for navigation. Both of these functions are often combined in one structure. As a result of the construction of the dam, a difference (level difference) arises between the pools, to overcome which ships, both going upstream and going downstream, need navigation facilities (locks, ship lifts. Often, a port is built next to the hydroelectric complex with a water area protected from storm waves, berths, backwater for the wintering of ships.

Approach channels to the navigation pass, upstream and downstream, form a kind of derivation along which ships go, but little water flows, only to fill and empty the lock chamber in the process of ships locking. Sometimes these channels acquire a considerable length, if it is necessary to bypass a section of the river that is inconvenient for navigation - straighten a steep bend, bypass the rapids. Canals of great length with many locks connect different rivers with each other.

The use of water resources for irrigation of agricultural lands and watering of arid territories requires the construction of its own complexes of hydraulic structures, imposes its own requirements on the regulation of the river flow. The area of ​​irrigated land is usually very large, and the hydraulic structures located on it are so numerous that their complex cannot be called a hydroelectric complex, they are called an irrigation system. Part of the structures, compactly located on the used river, as part of a dam that forms a reservoir for regulating the flow of the river, a spillway for flood passage, a water intake and a sump for settling sediments from water taken for irrigation, is called the head node of the irrigation system.

From the head node to irrigated lands, water is supplied by a main water conduit, most often a canal. Its length is measured in tens and hundreds of kilometers, distributors branch off from it along the way, and sprinklers from them. Unused residual water from the fields is collected by collectors and discharged into the watercourse. If part of the irrigated lands is located above the water level in the main canal, water for these lands is supplied by pumping stations. Regulators, drops, waste facilities, etc. are located on the irrigation network itself.

Drainage systems in areas of excessive soil moisture, the spread of swamps, of course, do not require the construction of dams. The complex of structures of these systems includes drainage, small and large channels, various structures on the drainage network; straightening works are carried out on watercourses (straightening, clearing, deepening, coastal dams). The drainage system may be gravity-fed, however, if the terrain is too flat, pumping stations may be required on the network and to pump water into the watercourse.

The complex systems of water supply - water disposal (sewerage) are very complex and diverse. The diversity depends mainly on the type of water consumer - domestic or industrial water supply. Many industries require a continuous supply of large masses of water, such as pulp and paper, metallurgical, chemical, thermal (and nuclear) power plants (for cooling condensers). Before the rest of this water, changed in its quality (waste water), is discharged into the watercourse or returned to production (circulating water supply), it must be cleaned, disinfected, cooled, etc. As part of an integrated water supply and sanitation system, in addition to the head node of the facilities on the river and the water conduit network at the consumer, there are pumping stations and a system for treating water taken from the watercourse, as well as a more complex system for treating water removed from the consumer.

3. Reservoirs

Reservoir - an artificial reservoir of considerable capacity, usually formed in the river valley by water-retaining structures to regulate its flow and further use in the national economy. In table. 1 shows the largest reservoirs in the world.

Table 1. The largest reservoirs in the world

The following main elements and zones are distinguished in the reservoir (Fig. 4).

Rice. 4. Main elements and zones of the reservoir. The main elements of the regime: 1 - low water level up to backwater; 2 - flood level to backwater; 3 - normal retaining level; 4 - flood level under backwater conditions

The throughput capacity of a hydroelectric complex (its turbines, spillways, bottom openings, locks) is limited for economic and less often technical reasons. Therefore, when there is a flow of very rare frequency in the reservoir (once every hundred, thousand, or even ten thousand years), the hydroelectric complex is not able to pass the entire mass of water flowing along the river. In these cases, the water levels in the entire reservoir and at the dam rise, increasing its volume, sometimes by a significant amount; at the same time, the capacity of the hydroelectric complex increases. Such a rise in the level above the FSL during the passage of high floods of rare frequency is called forcing the level of the reservoir, and the level itself is called forced retaining (FPU). On reservoirs used for water transport or timber rafting, the level drawdown during the navigation period is limited to the level at which the river fleet can continue normal operation due to the state of the depths. This level, located between the NPU and ULV, is called the level of navigation drawdown (ONS). The water levels, especially at FSL and FPU, at the dam, in the middle and upper zones of the reservoir are not the same. If the level at the dam corresponds to the FSL mark, then as you move away from it, it rises first by centimeters, and then by tens of centimeters. This phenomenon is called the backwater curve.

In addition to the great and undoubted benefits that reservoirs bring, after their filling, there are accompanying, often Negative consequences. These include the following. The greatest damage to the national economy is caused by the constant flooding of territories with settlements located on them, industrial enterprises, agricultural lands, forests, subsoil, railways and roads, communication and power lines, archaeological and historical monuments and other objects. Permanently flooded areas are areas located below the normal retaining level. Temporary flooding of territories located on the banks of reservoirs ranging from normal to forced retaining levels also causes damage, but occurs rarely (1 time in 100 - 10,000 years).

Level up ground water on the territory adjacent to the reservoir leads to its flooding - swamping, flooding underground structures and communications, which is also unprofitable.

Reformation (processing) of the banks of reservoirs by waves and currents can lead to the destruction of large areas of useful, developed territory. Landslide processes occur or become more active along the banks of reservoirs. The conditions of navigation and timber rafting on the river are radically changing, the river turns into a lake, the depths increase, the speeds decrease. The underbridge dimensions required for water transport are reduced.

The winter regime of the river changes greatly, the ice cover on the reservoir lengthens, the sludge disappears, if it was. Turbidity decreases as sediment settles into the reservoir.

Among the measures to compensate for the damage caused by flooding and underflooding of land, they carry out the transfer and restoration of cities, workers' settlements, collective farm estates, and industrial enterprises in new unflooded places. They carry separate sections of roads, build up their canvas, strengthen the slopes of embankments, etc. Transfer or protect monuments of history and culture, and if this is not possible, study and describe them. Bridge spans are raised and bridge crossings are rebuilt. River boats are being replaced by a lake fleet, mole rafting is being replaced by raft towing. Produce logging and forest clearing of the territory of the reservoir. They complete the development of minerals (for example, coal, ore, building materials, etc.) or provide the possibility of their subsequent development in the presence of a reservoir. Sometimes it turns out to be economically feasible instead of removing economic facilities and settlements from the flood zone of the reservoir, to implement measures for their engineering protection.

The complex of hydrotechnical and land reclamation measures, united by the name engineering protection, includes embankment or fencing of objects and valuable lands, drainage of flooded or embanked areas with the help of drainage and pumping out water, strengthening the banks in certain sections of the reservoir, etc.

4. Dams

A dam is a structure blocking a watercourse, which props up water to a level higher than that of a household, and thus concentrates in one place a pressure convenient for use, i.e., the difference in water levels in front of and behind the dam. The dam occupies an important place in the composition of any pressure hydroelectric complex.

Dams are being built in various climatic and natural conditions - in northern latitudes and in areas permafrost, as well as in the south, in tropical and subtropical zones, with high positive temperatures. Their location is high-water lowland rivers flowing in channels composed of non-rocky soils - sands, sandy loams, loams and clays, as well as mountain rivers flowing in deep rocky gorges, where strong earthquakes often repeat. The variety of natural conditions, the purpose of creating dams, the scale and technical equipment of construction has led to a variety of their types and designs. Like other structures, dams can be classified according to many criteria, such as height, the material from which they are built, the ability to pass water, the nature of their work as retaining structures, etc.

Hydraulic water-retaining structures, which include dams, perceive forces of different origin, nature and duration, the total effect of which is much greater and more complex than the effect of forces on buildings and structures of an industrial-civil type.

To understand the working conditions of water-retaining structures, consider the scheme of a concrete dam with the main loads acting on it. Like all extended concrete structures, the dam is cut into sections with seams that allow the sections to deform freely under temperature effects, shrinkage and precipitation, which prevents the formation of cracks. The following forces act on each section of the dam with a length L, a height H and a width along the base B.

The weight of the dam section G is determined by its geometric dimensions and the specific gravity of concrete g=rґg (as is known, specific gravity substance is equal to the product of its density and the acceleration of free fall).

Rice. Fig. 5. Transverse profiles of modern dams in comparison with the silhouettes of other structures (dimensions in meters): 1 - Dnieper; 2 - Bukhtarma; 3 - Krasnoyarsk; 4 - Brotherly; 5 - Charvak; 6 - pyramid of Cheops; 7 - Toktogul; 8 - Chirkeyskaya; 9 - Sayano-Shushenskaya; 10 - Usoi blockage; 11 - Nurek; 12 - Moscow State University; 13- Inguri

The pressure of filtering water on the foot of the dam arises due to the underground flow of water flowing under pressure through the pores and cracks in the soil of the base of the dam from the upstream to the downstream. The approximate value of this force, called backpressure, is:

U=ґgBL,

where H1, H2 are the water depths in the pools; g is the specific gravity of water; a is a reduction factor that takes into account the effect of impervious devices and drainage at the dam base.

The hydrostatic water pressure from the upstream and downstream sides is determined by the formulas:

W1=gH12L/2; W2=gH22L/2.

The forces listed above belong to the category of the most important and constantly operating. In addition to them, in necessary cases, according to special formulas, the dynamic pressure of waves, the pressure of ice, sediment deposited in the reservoir, as well as seismic forces are taken into account. An additional effect on the strength of a concrete dam is exerted by uneven temperature fluctuations. The cooling of the dam surfaces causes tensile stresses in them, and cracks can form in concrete that weakly resists them. Under the conditions of the listed forces and water pressure, the dam must be strong, resistant to shear and watertight (this requirement also applies to its foundation). In addition, the dam must be economical, i.e. of all the options that meet the above requirements, the option characterized by the minimum cost should be selected.

A special place in hydraulic engineering is occupied by issues related to the filtration of water from the upstream to the downstream. This phenomenon is inevitable, and the task of hydraulic engineering is to predict and organize it, and to prevent dangerous or unprofitable consequences with the help of engineering measures. The paths of filtration currents can be: the body of the structure, even if it is built of concrete; the foundation of the structure, especially when it is non-rocky or fractured rock; shores in the places where pressure structures adjoin them. The harmful effects of filtration are unproductive losses of water from reservoirs, which is thus not used for national economic purposes, back pressure, which reduces the degree of stability of the penstock, and filtration disturbances or deformations of the body of an earth dam or non-rock foundation, in particular, in the form of suffusion or uplift.

Suffusion is usually called the removal of small particles by the filtration flow through the pores between larger particles; it occurs in non-cohesive (loose) soils - inequigranular sandy, sandy-gravelly. During chemical suffusion, salts deposited in rocks are dissolved. Upstream is the removal by an underground stream filtering from under a pressure structure into the downstream of significant volumes of base soil, consisting of cohesive rocks, such as loams, clays, etc.

To ensure the normal operation of the structure and the elimination of hazardous phenomena, the design of the structure provides for a rational underground circuit (Fig. 6). This is achieved by increasing the filtration path under the structure, creating a waterproof coating in the upstream (ponura) and a powerful water break in the downstream, laying sheet piles or other curtains, teeth, or other measures.

Rice. 6. Scheme of a dam on a filter base (according to S.N. Maksimov, 1974): 1 - dam body, 2 - water break, 3 - apron, 4 - ponur, 5 - streamlines, 6 - sheet piles

Dams from soil materials.

An ancient type of pressure hydraulic structures are dams made of soil materials. Depending on the soils used, dams are either homogeneous or heterogeneous; in the transverse profile, the body of the latter consists of several types of soils. For the construction of a homogeneous earth dam, various low-permeable soils are used - sand, moraine, loess, sandy loam, loam, etc. In terms of the design of the dam and its interface with the base, this is the simplest type of pressure structure.

Heterogeneous earth dams, in turn, are divided into dams with a screen made of low-permeability soil, laid from the side of the upper slope of the dam, and dams with a core, in which low-permeability soil is located in the middle of the dam profile. Instead of a soil core, non-soil diaphragms made of asphalt concrete, reinforced concrete, steel, polymers, etc. can be used. Screens can also be made from these non-soil materials.

Depending on the method of work, earth dams are bulk, with mechanical compaction of the poured soil, and alluvial, erected with the help of hydromechanization; last way The construction of earth dams under the appropriate conditions (supply of water, energy and equipment, the presence of a suitable soil composition, etc.) is characterized by high productivity, reaching up to 200 thousand m3 / day.

Rock-and-earth dams are erected in the main part of the volume from a riprap of stone; their water resistance is achieved by the construction of a screen or core laid from low-permeable soils (loams, etc.). Between the stone and the fine-grained soil, return filters are arranged - transitional layers of sand and gravel with fineness increasing towards the stone, in order to prevent suffusion of the soil of the impervious devices.

Such dams have been found wide application in high-pressure waterworks on mountain rivers. So, the height of the dam of the Nurek hydroelectric power station on the river. Vakhsh is 300 m.

Their advantage, in comparison with other types of dams, is the use of stone and soil available at the construction site, the possibility of extensive mechanization of the main types of work (rock throw and soil filling), as well as sufficient seismic resistance. Compared to other types of earth dams, rock-and-earth dams are characterized by a steeper slope, i.e. less material.

The small width of the low-permeable contact of the rock-and-earth dam with the foundation complicates the design of their waterproof interface. In non-rocky soils, sheet piling or laying of a concrete spur is required, and in rocky soils, a grout curtain is installed by injecting cement mortar through drilled wells into rock cracks. Such interfaces prevent dangerous filtration phenomena at the base of pressure structures.

Rock-fill dams are built by throwing or filling stones, and their water resistance is ensured by a screen on the upper slope or a diaphragm in the middle of the profile, constructed from non-soil materials (reinforced concrete, wood, asphalt concrete, steel, plastics, etc.). Stone dams are built from dry masonry, which also requires baffles, or from mortared masonry. These dams are now rarely built.

Dams made of artificial materials.

Wooden dams are one of the oldest types of pressure structures, dating back many hundreds of years. In these dams, the main loads are perceived by wooden elements, and their stability against shear and floating is ensured by fixing wooden structures in the base (for example, by driving piles) or loading with stone or soil ballast (in woven structures). Wooden dams are built for small heads, from 2 to 20 m.

Fabric dams began to be built relatively recently due to the advent of durable waterproof synthetic materials. The main structural elements of fabric dams are the shell itself, filled with water or air and playing the role of a gate (weir), anchor devices for attaching the shell to the concrete flute, a piping system and pumping or fan equipment for filling and emptying the shell. The area of ​​application of fabric dams rarely goes beyond the pressure limit of 5 m.

Concrete dams are widely used in hydraulic engineering construction. They are built in various natural conditions and allow water to overflow through special spans on their crest (spillway dams), which is impossible or irrational in dams made of soil materials. Their structural forms are very different, which depends on many factors. The highest height of the Grand Dixans (Switzerland) gravity-type concrete dam is 284 m. In Russia, the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam of the arch-gravity type on the Yenisei is 240 m high. The dam has a rocky foundation. The spillway dams of the Svir and Volga cascades were built on a non-rocky foundation in difficult geological conditions. Lightweight concrete dams appeared later than massive ones and are relatively uncommon in Russia. By design, concrete dams are divided into three types: gravity, arch and buttress. The most famous type of these dams are buttress dams. Their advantage over massive ones is a smaller amount of concrete work. At the same time, they require more durable concrete, strengthening it with armature.

Gravity dams, when exposed to the main forces of hydrostatic pressure, provide sufficient shear resistance, mainly due to their large dead weight. In order to combat water filtration at the base of the dam, grouting curtains are arranged (in rocky foundations), sheet piles are hammered (in non-rocky foundations). To increase the stability of the dam, drainage is organized, cavities are arranged to reduce back pressure, and other measures are taken.

Arched dams are curvilinear in plan with a convexity towards the upstream; they resist the action of hydrostatic pressure and other horizontal shear loads, mainly due to their abutment against the banks of the gorge (or abutments). When constructing arch dams, a mandatory requirement is the presence of sufficiently strong and slightly pliable rocks in landfalls. These dams do not require, like gravity dams, a significant weight of concrete masonry, they are more economical than gravity dams. The radii of curvature of their arched elements increase from bottom to top.

Buttress dams consist of a number of buttresses, the shape of which in the side facade is close to a trapezoid, located at a certain distance from each other; buttresses are supported by pressure head floors, which perceive the loads acting from the upstream side. The spans of the bridge crossing rest on the buttresses from above. In turn, the buttresses transfer the load to the base. The following varieties of buttress dams are best known: massive buttress, with flat ceilings, multi-arch. Buttress dams are both deaf and spillway. They are built on rocky and non-rocky soils; in the latter case, they have an additional structural element in the form of a foundation slab, the purpose of which is to reduce stresses in the foundation soil. To give greater seismic resistance to buttresses in transverse seismic conditions (across the river), they are sometimes connected with each other by massive beams.

A feature of buttress dams is the increased width along the base and the slope of the upper face, which leads to the fact that a significant vertical component of water pressure is transferred to the latter, pressing the dam to the base and providing it with shear stability, despite the reduced weight. The backpressure in such dams is less than in massive gravity dams.

Buttress dams require less concrete volumes than gravity dams, but the cost of improving the quality of concrete, reinforcement and complicating the work makes them quite close to each other in terms of economic indicators. The highest buttress (multi-arch) dam Daniel-Johnson 215 m high was built in Canada.

5. Spillways

As part of the hydroelectric complex, in addition to the blind dam, great importance have spillways, i.e. devices for dumping excess flood waters or passing expenses for other purposes. There are several various solutions location of spillways in the hydroelectric complex.

Spillway spans can be arranged in the crest of a concrete dam in the channel or on the floodplain of the river; then the structure will take the form of a spillway dam. The spillway can be arranged independently of the dam in the form of a special structure located on the coastal slope and therefore called the coastal spillway.

Both in the body of the dam and on the bank slope, spillways can be placed close to the dam crest or deep below the headwater level. The first are called surface, the second - deep or bottom spillways.

The surface spans of spillway dams may be open (without gates), but they usually have gates to control the upstream water level. To prevent the overflow of the reservoir, the gates are opened partially or completely, preventing the water level from rising above the mark of the normal retaining level (NSL). To improve the conditions for the passage of water through the dam, its crest is given a smooth, rounded outline, which then turns into a steeply dipping surface, ending near the level of the tailwater with another reverse rounding, directing the flow into the riverbed. The entire length of the spillway is divided by bulls into a series of spans. Bulls, in addition, perceive the pressure of water from the gates, and also serve as supports for bridges intended for maintenance. lifting mechanisms and gates and transport links between the shores.

Water discharged through the dam has a large supply of potential energy, which is converted into kinetic energy. The fight against the destructive energy of the flow discharged through the dam is underway different ways. Behind the spillway dam on the massive water concrete slab they arrange energy absorbers in the form of separate concrete masses - checkers, piers or reinforced concrete beams. Sometimes, in the downstream of a spillway dam, a surface regime is organized by arranging a ledge and a toe in the lower part of the spillway, breaking off from it at a higher speed, the flow concentrates at the surface, and under it a roll is formed with moderate reverse velocities near the bottom.

Behind the spillway dams, which have non-rocky rocks at the base, behind the water breaks, an apron is made - a fortified permeable section of the river bed.

Usually, spillways are located on the shore in hydroelectric facilities with dams made of soil materials that do not allow water to flow through their crest, as well as in hydroelectric facilities with concrete dams in narrow gorges, where the channel is occupied by a hydroelectric power station near the dam. Their types are very diverse. The most commonly used are surface spillways, in which the discharged stream flows along the surface of the coast in an open recess. They are located on one or two banks, often near a dam, and have the following components: an inlet channel, a spillway proper with spillways, piers and gates (or automatic action without gates), a discharge channel in the form of a fast current or a stepped drop (used rarely). Coastal spillways are completed with water-breaking devices, similar to those that are arranged in the downstream of spillway dams - a water well.

If local conditions prevent tracing a diversion channel, then it can be replaced by a diversion tunnel; a tunnel-type coastal spillway will be obtained. Tunnel coastal spillways have the following components: an inlet channel located at high elevations of the coastal slope in the upstream, the outlet structure itself with gates and a discharge tunnel ending with a section of the channel and a water-breaking device.

Deep and bottom spillways are located at elevations close to the bottom of the watercourse on which the hydropower plant is being built. They are arranged for the following purposes: to pass the river flow during the construction of the dam in the riverbed (construction spillways), and in some cases to pass all or part of the discharge. Their main varieties are tunnel and tubular spillways. Spillway tunnels are located in rocky coastal massifs, bypassing the dam, their length is several hundred meters, the cross-sectional dimensions are determined by the flow rate. The cross-sectional shape of construction spillways is usually horseshoe-shaped. The remaining tunnels, operating under high pressure, have a circular cross section.

Tubular spillways are located in the hydroelectric complex depending on the type of dam. If the dam is concrete (gravitational, buttress or arched), then spillways are pipes that cut through its body from the upstream to the downstream and are equipped with gates. If the dam is earthen, then tubular spillways are arranged under the dam, deepening them into the base. They are a tower from which steel or reinforced concrete pipes of round or rectangular cross section originate, depending on the pressure. They can be single or assembled into a kind of "batteries" depending on the flow. Gates and control mechanisms are placed in the inlet and outlet parts of the pipes.

Gates and lifts. The main gates are used to regulate discharge flows and water levels in the upper pool, as well as to pass in some cases forests, ice, litter, sediments. They can completely or partially close culverts. The design of gates depends on their location; shutters of surface openings, often large, perceive a relatively small hydrostatic pressure; deep hole valves, which are much smaller, experience high hydrostatic pressure. Gates are most often made of steel, with small pressures and spans of blocked holes - from wood, in low-pressure non-critical structures with large spans - from fabric materials (fabric dams). The most widely used in hydraulic structures are flat gates, which are a metal structure in the form of a shield moving in vertical grooves of bulls and abutments. The components of a flat gate are: a waterproof casing that perceives the pressure of the upstream water, then a system of beams, trusses and support structures that roll or slide along special rails embedded in the grooves. The mass of the movable part of the shutters is quite significant, at high altitudes and spans it exceeds 100 tons, which requires powerful lifting mechanisms. To reduce the lifting force of mechanisms, segmental gates are used, which, when they are raised and lowered, rotate around hinges embedded in bulls and abutments. Such valves are also widely used, but their cost exceeds the cost of flat valves.

6. Water inlets

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Purpose of the water intake. Water intakes are called parts of water intake structures, the main purpose of which is the intake of water from a watercourse (river, canal) or reservoir (lake, reservoir); the action for which they are intended can be called water intake.

The consumer usually regulates the flow of water. Water intake should be ensured at any retaining level - from normal (NCL) to the lowest - dead volume level (DSL).

The functions of the water intake facility include water purification from impurities and foreign bodies.

Water intake structures. The design and equipment of the water intake largely depend on the type of waterworks and on the type of water conduit - pressure or non-pressure. Therefore, a description of the structures and equipment of water intakes and their operation is possible only separately for each type. The dimensions of the water intake are characterized by the dimensions of its inlet section, where the trash-retaining grates are located (often they are called trash-retaining). To facilitate cleaning of the gratings and reduce pressure losses on the gratings, the flow velocity at the inlet is assumed to be no more than 1.0 m/s. The inlet area of ​​water intakes of large turbines is measured in hundreds of square meters.

The water intake of this type, individual for each turbine, is a rectangular hole in the dam mass, gradually narrowing and turning into a circular section of the turbine conduit.

The upper part of the entrance is closed with a reinforced concrete wall - a visor lowered below the ULV. The visor perceives the pressure of ice, detains floating objects. In front of the entrance to the water intake, a grate 1 of strip steel rods is installed to retain debris suspended in the water, which could damage the turbine. During operation, the debris accumulated at the water intake and on the grate is removed with a mechanical rake, grab, since when the grate becomes clogged, its resistance to water flow will increase significantly.

Behind the grating in the bulls, grooves are arranged to install the gate 3 and stop the water supply to the turbine conduit. In order to be able to maintain and repair the quick-acting shutter, grooves 2 for the repair shutter are arranged in front of it. You can get to the shutter for inspection and repair through the inspection hatch 6. The repair shutter is simpler, it does not require speed, it does not fall into the stream, but into calm water. Behind the gate, an air duct 7 is arranged - a pipe for supplying air to the turbine conduit, replacing the water leaving through the turbine in the event that the water intake is closed by an emergency repair gate. For ease of operation, a building equipped with an overhead assembly crane is being erected above the water intake. In favorable climatic conditions the building is not being built and a gantry crane is used.

The main gate regulates the water flow in accordance with the water consumption schedule. The movement of the shutter is carried out using a hydraulic drive.

With small fluctuations in the level of the upper pool, the water intake structure is located at high elevations of the coast, this is the so-called surface coastal water intake. With a wide range of operating levels of the reservoir, it is necessary to arrange a deep coastal water intake, placing it slightly below the ULV.

7. Water conduits

Purpose of conduits. The water that enters the water intake and is purified from impurities must be left to the consumer in accordance with the consumption schedule. One of the main requirements for conduits (pressure and non-pressure) is the water tightness of their walls. Water should not be lost along the way, and these losses should not swamp the surrounding area. For a hydroelectric power plant, it is also necessary that the potential energy of the flow be lost along the way as little as possible, the slope of its free or piezometric surface should be small. To do this, the walls of the conduit must be smooth, characterized by low resistance to flow. Smooth walls are needed for water conduits and irrigation systems and water supply systems - the higher the water is brought, the easier it is to ensure its gravity flow to consumers, the lower the energy costs for the operation of pumping stations. Only for shipping channels, the roughness of the walls does not matter, since the speeds in them are small or equal to zero.

The walls of conduits should not be washed away by current velocities and waves (waves occur, for example, when ships move along canals).

The dimensions of the cross section of the conduit are determined on the basis of technical and economic calculations. The type and design of the conduit is also determined on the basis of technical and economic comparisons. Depending on the purpose of the conduit, its size, natural conditions and conditions of construction and operation, channels, trays, pipelines, tunnels can be used as a conduit. The first two types are non-pressure, the third is pressure; the tunnel can be both pressure and non-pressure (if it is not filled with water to the top). Often optimal solution is achieved by a sequential combination of sections of the conduit of different types.

The simplest and cheapest type of conduit is usually a canal. Channels are common in all areas of hydraulic engineering. It is advisable to lay the canal route on the plan so that the water in it is in the recess, the height of the dams is small. The cross-sectional shape is trapezoidal (sometimes of a more complex shape), the steepness of the slopes is determined by their stability; the ground must not slip.

In rocky soil, the cross section of the channel approaches a rectangular one. The width of the channel section is greater than its depth in order to reduce water losses due to filtration from the channel, increase the flow rate and reduce the resistance to flow, i.e. the slope of the surface, the bottom and slopes of the channel are covered with cladding, most often concrete or reinforced concrete. A layer of coarse-grained soil (gravel) is laid under the lining as a drainage.

The tunnel is the most expensive type of conduit per unit of its length. If the tunnel is laid in weak, non-rocky soils, then its cost increases especially. In this regard, it can be preferred to surface types of derivation only if it is much shorter, allows you to straighten the route, or if the coastal slope along which the route can be laid is of little use for surface derivation - very rugged terrain, high steepness, landslides, avalanches .

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Chapter 9 Hydrodynamic Accidents

9.1. Hydraulic structures

Hydraulic structures and their classifications

To hydraulic structures (TTC) includes pressure front structures

and natural dams (dams, locks, dams, irrigation systems, dams, canals, storm sewers, etc.) that create a difference in water levels before and after them, designed to use water resources, as well as to combat the harmful effects of water.

Dam - an artificial water-retaining structure or a natural (natural) obstacle in the way of a watercourse, creating a difference in levels in its upstream and downstream along the riverbed; is an important type of common hydraulic structure with culverts and other devices created with it.

Artificial dams are created by man for his own needs; these are dams of hydroelectric power stations, water intakes in irrigation systems, dams, dams, dams that create a reservoir in their upper pool. Natural dams are the result of the actions of natural forces: landslides, mudflows, avalanches, collapses, earthquakes.

Pool - a section of a river between two adjacent dams on a river or a section of a canal between two locks.

The upstream of the dam part of the river above the retaining structure (dam, lock). Downstream - part river below the retaining structure.

Risberma - a fortified section of the riverbed in the downstream of a spillway hydraulic structure, protecting the channel from erosion, equalizing the flow rate.

Reservoirs can be long-term or short-term. A long-term artificial reservoir is, for example, the reservoir of the headwater of the Iriklinskaya GRES. A long-term natural reservoir is formed due to the blocking of rivers by a collapse of hard rock (Tian Shan, Pamir, etc.).

Short-term artificial dams are built to temporarily change the direction of the river bed during the construction of a hydroelectric power station or other hydraulic structures. They arise as a result of blocking the river with loose soil, snow or ice (congestion, constipation).

As a rule, artificial and natural dams have drains: for artificial dams - directed, for natural - randomly formed (spontaneous).

There are several classifications of hydraulic structures.

According to the location of the GTS are divided into:

on land (pond, river, lake, sea);

underground pipelines, tunnels.

By nature and purpose of use The following types of GTS are distinguished:

water and energy;

for water supply;

ameliorative;

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sewer;

water transport;

decorative;

timber-smelting;

sports;

fisheries.

By functional purpose GTS are classified as follows:

waterworks, creating a pressure or a difference in water levels in front of the structure and behind it (dams, dams);

plumbing structures(water conduits) used to transfer water to specified points (canals, tunnels, flumes, pipelines, locks, aqueducts);

regulatory (corrective) structures,designed to improve the conditions for the flow of watercourses and protect the channels and banks of rivers (shields, dams, semi-dams, bank protection, ice guide structures);

waterworks, used to pass excess water from reservoirs, canals, pressure basins, which allow partially or completely emptying reservoirs.

AT separate group special hydraulic structures:

HTS for the use of water energy - HPP buildings and pressure basins;

GTS for water transport - shipping locks, log launches;

ameliorative GTS - main and distribution canals, locks,

fishery HTS - fish passages, fish ponds;

complex hydraulic structures (hydraulic units) - hydraulic structures united by a common network of dams, canals, locks, power plants, etc.

Classes of hydraulic structures

Depending on the possible consequences of their destruction, hydrotechnical structures of the pressure front are divided into classes: hydroelectric power plants with a capacity of 1.5 million kW or more belong to class I, and those of smaller capacity belong to class II–IV. Land reclamation facilities with an area of ​​irrigation and drainage over 300,000 ha belong to class I, and those with an area of ​​50,000 ha or less belong to class II–IV.

The class of the main permanent structures of the pressure front also depends on their height and the type of foundation soils (Table 16).

Table 16

Classes of the main permanent hydraulic structures of the pressure front, depending on their height and type of foundation soil

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Water is the source of life. But despite the fact that from time immemorial, settlers settled near rivers and lakes, they did not cease to be afraid of the power of the stream. Floods, high waters, channel changes and other natural calamities can change the whole habitual life at once. To “domesticate” water, it is necessary to build dams and other barrage structures. In this article we will talk about hydraulic structures - what it is and what applies to such objects.

Why are hydraulic structures installed?

SP 58.13330.2012 and SNiP 33-01-2003 will help answer this question - these are the main documents that regulate all design and construction work. In the "Terms" section of the set of rules there is an indication of what water structures are. They may belong to different groups, depending on which they will help to fulfill one of the following goals:

  • Protection of water resources from the negative impact of people and their livelihoods.
  • Preventing the impact of polluted waters on environment.
  • Coastal damage protection.
  • Storage of liquid waste from production or agriculture.
  • For mooring ships and bathing the population.
  • Communication with production - water supply from a reservoir and discharge of used liquid.

There are many such goals. In fact, any structure that is located partially or completely on a water resource of natural or artificial burial is considered a hydraulic structure. Most often when used, for example, river water in production, then the complexes of measures and tasks do not converge on one, production. Also mandatory are the protective functions of hydraulic engineering, which compensate for the damage caused to the reservoir.

Due to the abundance of structures that can be attributed to this category, it is difficult to give a clear classification of all buildings. We will highlight the main features, and then give examples of projects for hydraulic structures.

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Temporary and permanent hydraulic engineering

Among those hydraulic structures that operate around the clock, there are primary and secondary facilities. The former include all structures, the failure of which will lead to the failure of large enterprises. This may be the binding of a water supply system, an irrigation system, the blocking of a navigable river without such dams, and so on.

The second class of buildings usually does not affect production or any other process, but only regulates it. However, due to a breakdown, work will not completely stop.

In addition to those listed, there are temporary hydroelectric facilities. This is a technique that is installed for a certain period, for example, for the period of repair work on the main hydraulic structure.

Varieties of hydraulic structures depending on the interaction with the water resource

Most structures are a barrier that makes the level between two water streams different. The drop provides the force of pressure, and the area between the two dams can be used as a reservoir. Consider the classification according to the treatment of the river.

Water retaining

Such barriers are built against the channel. They are designed to block the flow, thereby achieving an artificial level difference. This discrepancy between the volume of water and the normal flow leads to the appearance of pressure. This mechanism is used by stations that use a hydraulic structure as an energy facility. The force of water in pressure is converted into energy.

Another function of the water-retaining structure is to create artificial backwaters, reservoirs. The lower and upper pools are the two points with the maximum difference in levels. Such buildings provide control over climate change, which can disrupt the infrastructure of an entire city if flooding occurs. Therefore, such dams are considered the most dangerous in case of improper design or construction, further maintenance.

They are also the most essential. Such an artificial barrier makes it possible to build houses along the riverbed without fear of floods and other misfortunes.

Water intake


From the name it is already clear that the function of such structures is to manage the flow. Not only to take cubic meters of water, but also to move them across certain territories, launching them into locks and diverting them from a certain channel. Such a system is used in shipping when a loaded ship needs to be stranded or, on the contrary, removed from the port.

Small water intakes regulate and remove excess fluid from reservoirs and other artificial water systems. These are small valves that have holes in the drains below.

In addition, the main purpose of water intake hydraulic structures is to supply the necessary volumes of cool river moisture to factories and large enterprises. Cubic meters are needed for cooling, filtration or other functions. A number of industries perform secondary filtration and remove the liquid back to the water canal. For other purposes, only flow is required, for example, for irrigation. Irrigation of large agricultural lands requires large water supplies. At the same time, another function is carried out - cleaning from ice, debris and other impurities. Larger or finer filtration is installed at such intake points, which removes unnecessary elements.

Water intake can be carried out:

  • from the surface of a river or lake - this is easy in the design of a hydraulic structure, but often inefficient due to surface contamination, which requires more thorough cleaning;
  • from depth - the level of the fence goes well below the surface, it is more difficult in construction, but this eliminates the need to build protection against ice, and also ensures that moisture supply will be carried out even during dry periods when the water level drops sharply;
  • from the bottom - this is the most stable and monumental option that will last a long time, but its feature is in the power of the structure (resistance to the pressure of the water mass) and deep filtration from silt; and it also becomes more difficult to carry out repairs and maintenance.

Large enterprises most often make multi-level water intake. So pipes with pumps are installed at different distances, which gives a constant pressure.


According to the method of sampling, there are also various system configurations:

  • Coastal. They are mounted on a steep, steep bank with the removal of the front wall to the ground. Large, massive reinforced concrete half-rings make the cliff suitable for exploitation. From concrete wall pipes exit at a certain level, which are designed to pump out liquid.
  • Channel. These are also systems that are located on the banks of the river, but unlike the previous ones, they are less monumental and costly, do not require such large structures. They are located on gently sloping banks, and the tip is carried out into the channel.
  • Floating. Such islands are located on barges. Pumps are mounted on them, they pump water from the surface and send it through a pipeline to the shore.
  • Bucket. In this design, there is a bucket, that is, a large tank for a large number of liters, which lowers and rises. This wicks away moisture.

All of them can be combined with pumping equipment, bring water pipes to them.

Regulatory or straightening structures

They are intended for artificial intervention in the direction of the river, that is, they change the course. Buildings are called jet guides. They are built in several stages - the banks, the width of the river are regulated, then, if necessary, the depth. This can be achieved by lining the bottom in a certain area. Restrictors and jet guides form the flow and its speed in the already prepared framework. This is how the optimal level of the fairway is maintained, the reservoir does not leave its place, and the nearest production can use the water resource.

For the construction of water intake structures or dams that provide a directional flow of high power, it is sometimes necessary to properly lay the channel. To do this, according to the previous scheme, the banks and the bottom are equipped.


By power, there are two types of regulatory structures:

  • permanent - multi-tier installations for the complete straightening of the channel, curvature and flow rate;
  • temporary - lighter devices that help the river find a more optimal bend rather than change it.

The former consist of large dams, dams, dams, ramparts. If necessary, they can also connect a pumping station. Such an integrated approach almost completely makes it possible to take control over the elements into human hands.

The second ones are light embankments, bank fortifications. Such measures rather protect against the wrong flow, slightly change the direction.

Irrigation systems

Among the water intakes, irrigation structures stand separately. The calculation of the hydraulic structure for the irrigation of certain areas is done even for the period of the decision on the location of the reservoir, since ponds are often artificially dug out for these purposes, and dams are also made from the channel of the nearest river. If the hydraulic structure is located on a natural water resource, then two types are distinguished:

  • damless - when an optimal bend is chosen to drain water so that the current does not muddy the liquid;
  • damming - a special dam is being built, which directs the channel and blocks it, forming a pressure.

Culvert systems

These are structures that free closed reservoirs from excess rainfall. When there are too many of them, the liquid flows over the crest of the linear structure. When a wider range of goals is achieved, automated processes can be established - opening and closing the spillway valve.

GTS for special purposes

Among them:

  • fishing;
  • hydropower;
  • shipping;
  • ameliorative;
  • sedimentation tanks for liquid waste.

General norms and basic provisions for the design and construction of hydraulic structures (HTS)


All requirements are presented in the documents:

  • SP 58.13330.2012;
  • SNiP 33-01-2003.

They provide security and technical regulation of buildings. The grounds are draft laws N 117-FZ "On the safety of hydraulic structures", N 184-FZ "On technical regulation" and N 384-FZ "Technical regulations on the safety of buildings and structures". Also, references are made to the rules and GOSTs for construction:

  • SP 14.13330.2011 "Construction in seismic regions";
  • SNiP 2.01.07-85 "Loads and impacts";
  • SNiP 2.05.03-84 "Bridges and pipes";
  • SNiP 2.06.07-87 "Retaining walls, shipping locks, fish passage and fish protection structures";
  • SNiP 2.06.15-85 "Engineering protection of territories from flooding and flooding";
  • GOST 19185-73 “Hydraulic engineering. Basic concepts. Terms and Definitions";
  • GOST 26775-97 "Underbridge dimensions of navigable spans of bridges on inland waterways" and others.

Basic provisions for the design of hydraulic structures

When drawing up a project, you need to consider:

  • urban planning and engineering development scheme;
  • technical indicators of the structure, depending on the purpose;
  • results of design surveys: geological, environmental, seismic, hydrological, meteorological and others;
  • the possibility of carrying out certain methods of work, construction in certain conditions;
  • impact on the environment and population, the level of water pollution, etc.;
  • intensity of exploitation;
  • building materials - reinforced concrete, pipes, etc.;
  • the need to use pumping equipment, which means supplying electricity.

Since the number of varieties of hydraulic structures is very large, it is impossible to single out a typical project and give the conditions for its development. All design decisions will be applied depending on the tasks, goals and purpose.

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    Hydraulic structures (HTS) include pressure front structures and natural dams (dams, locks, dams, irrigation systems, dams, dams, canals, storm sewers, etc.) that create a difference in water levels before and after them, designed to use water resources , as well as to combat the harmful effects of water.

    Dam - an artificial water-retaining structure or a natural (natural) obstacle in the way of a watercourse, creating a difference in levels in its upstream and downstream along the riverbed; is an important type of common hydraulic structure with culverts and other devices created with it.

    Artificial dams are created by man for his own needs; these are dams of hydroelectric power stations, water intakes in irrigation systems, dams, dams, dams that create a reservoir in their upper pool. Natural dams are the result of the actions of natural forces: landslides, mudflows, avalanches, collapses, earthquakes.

    Pool - a section of a river between two adjacent dams on a river or a section of a canal between two locks.

    The upstream of the dam is the part of the river above the retaining structure (dam, sluice).

    Downstream - part of the river below the retaining structure.

    Risberma - a fortified section of the riverbed in the downstream of a spillway hydraulic structure, protecting the channel from erosion, leveling the flow rate.

    Reservoirs can be long-term or short-term. A long-term artificial reservoir is, for example, the reservoir of the headwater of the Iriklinskaya GRES. A long-term natural reservoir is formed due to the blocking of rivers by a collapse of hard rock (Tian Shan, Pamir, etc.).

    Short-term artificial dams are built to temporarily change the direction of the river bed during the construction of a hydroelectric power station or other hydraulic structures. They arise as a result of blocking the river with loose soil, snow or ice (congestion, constipation).

    As a rule, artificial and natural dams have drains: for artificial dams - directed, for natural - randomly formed (spontaneous). There are several classifications of hydraulic structures. According to the location of the GTS, they are divided into:

    • on land (pond, river, lake, sea);
    • underground pipelines, tunnels.

    According to the nature and purpose of use, the following types of GTS are distinguished:

    • water and energy;
    • for water supply;
    • ameliorative;
    • sewer;
    • water transport;
    • decorative;
    • timber-smelting;
    • sports;
    • fisheries.

    According to their functional purpose, HTS are classified as follows:

    • water-retaining structures that create pressure or a difference in water levels in front of the structure and behind it (dams, dams);
    • water-conveying structures (water conduits) used to transfer water to specified points (canals, tunnels, flumes, pipelines, locks, aqueducts);
    • regulatory (straightening) structures designed to improve the conditions for the flow of watercourses and protect the channels and banks of rivers (shields, dams, semi-dams, bank protection, ice guide structures);
    • spillway structures that serve to pass excess water from reservoirs, canals, pressure basins, which allow partially or completely emptying reservoirs.

    In a special group, special hydraulic structures are distinguished:

    • HTS for the use of water energy - HPP buildings and pressure basins;
    • GTS for water transport - shipping locks, log launches;
    • ameliorative GTS - main and distribution channels, locks, regulators;
    • fishery GTS - fish passages, fish ponds;
    • integrated HTS (hydraulic units) - HTS united by a common network of dams, canals, locks, power plants, etc.

    Article 4 federal law"On the safety of hydraulic structures" Government Russian Federation decides:

    1. Establish that hydraulic structures are divided into the following classes:

    I class - hydraulic structures of extremely high danger;

    Class II - high-risk hydraulic structures;

    III class - hydraulic structures of medium danger;

    Class IV - hydraulic structures of low danger.

    2. Approve the attached criteria for the classification of hydraulic structures.

    3. Establish that if a hydraulic structure, in accordance with the criteria approved by this resolution, can be assigned to different classes, such a hydraulic structure belongs to the highest of them.

    Criteria for the classification of hydraulic structures
    (approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of November 2, 2013 No. 986)

    1. Classes of hydraulic structures depending on their height and type of foundation soil:

    Hydraulic structure Foundation soil type Height of the hydraulic structure
    (meters)
    I class II class III class IV class
    1. Dams made of earth materials BUT over 80 from 50 to 80 from 20 to 50 less than 20
    B over 65 from 35 to 65 from 15 to 35 less than 15
    AT more than 50 from 25 to 50 from 15 to 25 less than 15
    2. Concrete, reinforced concrete dams; underwater structures of hydroelectric buildings; shipping locks; ship lifts and other structures involved in the creation of a pressure front BUT over 100 from 60 to 100 from 25 to 60 less than 25
    B more than 50 from 25 to 50 10 to 25 less than 10
    AT over 25 from 20 to 25 10 to 20 less than 10
    3. Retaining walls BUT over 40 from 25 to 40 from 15 to 25 less than 15
    B over 30 20 to 30 12 to 20 less than 12
    AT over 25 from 18 to 25 10 to 18 less than 10
    4. Marine berthing facilities of the main purpose A B C over 25 from 20 to 25 less than 20 -
    5. Marine in-port protective structures; coastal fortifications; jet guides and sediment-retaining dams and others A B C - over 15 15 or less -
    6. Fencing structures of liquid waste storage facilities A B C more than 50 from 20 to 50 10 to 20 less than 10
    7. Protective structures; ice protection structures A B C over 25 from 5 to 25 less than 5 -
    8. Dry and liquid docks; bulk dock chambers BUT - over 15 15 or less -
    B, C - over 10 10 or less -

    Notes: 1. Soils are divided into: A - rock; B - sandy, coarse-grained and clayey in solid and semi-solid state; B - clay water-saturated in a plastic state.

    2. The height of a hydraulic structure and the assessment of its foundation are determined according to the design documentation.

    3. In positions 4 and 7, instead of the height of the hydraulic structure, the depth of the base of the hydraulic structure is taken.

    2. Classes of hydraulic structures depending on their purpose and operating conditions:

    Hydraulic structure
    1. Retaining hydraulic structures of reclamation hydroelectric facilities with the volume of the reservoir, mln. m:
    over 1000 I
    from 200 to 1000 II
    from 50 to 200 III
    50 or less IV
    2. Hydraulic structures of hydraulic, pumped storage, tidal and thermal power plants with installed capacity, MW:
    over 1000 I
    from 300 to 1000 II
    from 10 to 300 III
    10 or less IV
    3. Hydraulic structures nuclear power plants regardless of power I
    4. Hydraulic structures and navigable channels on inland waterways (except for hydraulic structures of river ports):
    superhighway II
    main and local importance III
    5. Hydraulic structures of reclamation systems with an area of ​​irrigation and drainage serviced by structures, thousand hectares:
    over 300 I
    from 100 to 300 II
    from 50 to 100 III
    50 or less IV
    6. Canals of complex water management purpose and hydraulic structures on them with a total annual volume of water supply, million cubic meters. m:
    over 200 I
    from 100 to 200 II
    from 20 to 100 III
    less than 20 IV
    7. Marine protective hydraulic structures and hydraulic structures of sea channels, seaports with the volume of cargo turnover and the number of ship calls to navigation:
    over 6 million tons of dry cargo (over 12 million tons of liquid cargo) and over 800 ship calls I
    from 1.5 to 6 million tons of dry cargo (from 6 to 12 million tons of liquid cargo) and from 600 to 800 ship calls II
    less than 1.5 million tons of dry cargo (less than 6 million tons of liquid cargo) and less than 600 ship calls III
    8. Marine protective hydraulic structures and hydraulic structures of marine shipbuilding and ship repair enterprises and bases, depending on the class of enterprise II, III
    9. Fencing hydraulic structures of river ports, shipbuilding and ship repair enterprises III
    10. Hydraulic structures of river ports with an average daily cargo turnover (conv. tons) and passenger turnover (conv. passengers):
    over 15000 conv. tons and over 2000 conv. passengers (port category 1) III
    3501 - 15000 arb. tons and 501 - 2000 conv. passengers (port category 2) III
    751 - 3500 conv. tons and 201 - 500 conv. passengers (port category 3) III
    750 and less conventional. tons and 200 and less conventional units. passengers (port category 4) IV
    11. Offshore berthing hydraulic structures, hydraulic structures of railway crossings, lighter-carrying system with cargo turnover, million tons:
    over 0.5 II
    0.5 or less III
    12. Berthing hydraulic structures for sludge, inter-voyage repairs and supply of ships III
    13. Berthing hydraulic structures of shipbuilding and ship repair enterprises for ships with an empty displacement, thousand tons:
    over 3.5 II
    3.5 or less III
    14. Construction and lifting-launching hydraulic structures for ships with a launching weight, thousand tons:
    over 30 I
    from 3.5 to 30 II
    3.5 or less III
    15. Stationary hydraulic structures of aids to navigation I
    16. Temporary hydraulic structures used at the stages of construction, reconstruction and overhaul of permanent hydraulic structures IV
    17. Bank protection hydraulic structures III

    Notes: 1. The class of hydraulic structures of hydraulic and thermal power plants with an installed capacity of less than 1000 MW, indicated in position 2, is increased by one if the power plants are isolated from energy systems.

    2. The class of hydraulic structures indicated in position 6 is increased by one for canals transporting water to arid regions in conditions of difficult mountainous terrain.

    3. The class of hydraulic structures of the canal section from the head water intake to the first regulating reservoir, as well as the canal sections between the regulating reservoirs, provided for in position 6, is reduced by one if the water supply to the main water consumer during the period of liquidation of the consequences of an accident on the canal can be provided at the expense of the regulating reservoirs or other sources.

    4. The class of hydraulic structures of river ports indicated in position 10 is increased by one if damage to the hydraulic structures of river ports can lead to emergencies of a federal, interregional and regional nature.

    5. The class of hydraulic structures indicated in positions 13 and 14 is increased by one, depending on the complexity of ships under construction or repair.

    6. The class of hydraulic structures specified in position 16 is increased by one if damage to such hydraulic structures can lead to an emergency.

    7. The class of hydraulic structures indicated in position 17 is increased by one if damage to bank-protecting hydraulic structures can lead to emergencies of a federal, interregional and regional nature.

    3. Classes of protective hydraulic structures, depending on the maximum pressure on the water-retaining structure:

    Protected areas and objects Maximum design head
    (meters)
    I class II class III class IV class
    1. Residential areas (settlements) with a density of housing stock on the territory of possible partial or complete destruction in the event of an accident at a water-retaining structure,
    1 sq. m per 1 ha:
    over 2500 over 5 3 to 5 until 3 -
    from 2100 to 2500 over 8 5 to 8 2 to 5 up to 2
    from 1800 to 2100 over 10 8 to 10 5 to 8 up to 5
    less than 1800 over 15 10 to 15 8 to 10 up to 8
    2. Objects of health-improving, recreational and sanitary purposes (not included in position 1) - over 15 10 to 15 less than 10
    3. Objects with a total annual production volume and (or) the cost of a one-time stored product, billion rubles:
    over 5 over 5 2 to 5 up to 2 -
    1 to 5 over 8 3 to 8 2 to 3 up to 2
    less than 1 over 8 5 to 8 3 to 5 until 3
    4. Monuments of culture and nature over 3 until 3 - -

    4. Classes of hydraulic structures depending on the consequences of possible hydrodynamic accidents:

    Hydraulic structure class Number of permanent residents who may be affected by an accident of a hydraulic structure (persons) The number of people whose living conditions may be violated in the event of an accident of a hydraulic structure (persons) The amount of possible material damage without taking into account the losses of the owner of the hydraulic structure (million rubles) Characteristics of the territory of distribution of an emergency situation resulting from an accident of a hydraulic structure
    I over 3000 over 20000 over 5000 within the territory of two or more subjects of the Russian Federation
    II from 500 to 3000 from 2000 to 20000 from 1000 to 5000 within the territory of one subject of the Russian Federation (two or more municipalities)
    III up to 500 before 2000 from 100 to 1000 within the territory of one municipality
    IV - - less than 100 within the territory of one business entity

    Document overview

    Criteria for the classification of hydraulic structures have been established.

    4 classes of their danger are allocated: I class - constructions of extremely high danger; II class - high danger; III class - medium danger; Class IV - hydraulic structures of low danger.

    The classification is made depending on the height of hydraulic structures and the type of soil of their bases, the purpose and operating conditions, the maximum pressure on the water-retaining structures and the consequences of possible hydrodynamic accidents.

    If a hydraulic structure can be attributed to different classes, it is assigned the highest of them.

    Note that taking into account the class, measures are determined to ensure the safety of a hydraulic structure.

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