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Design of Pressure Tunnels and Shafts for Hydropower Plants - Anton Schleiss

Design of Pressure Tunnels and Shafts for Hydropower Plants

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Buch | Hardcover
432 Seiten
2026
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-032-12284-7 (ISBN)
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This professional guide outlines the design basis of pressure tunnels and shafts, covering rock hydraulics, then the need and use, and challenges, of both pervious linings and tight linings using high-grade steels. It covers design and calculation methods, including cost and risk-based design approaches, and safety assessment.
Pressure tunnels and pressure shafts are essential components of storage hydropower schemes. Their design necessitates expertise in hydraulic, structural and geotechnical engineering. Accurately modeling the lining-rock system involves accounting for hydraulic-mechanical interactions.

This book presents a thorough examination of the design of pressure tunnels and pressure shafts for internal and external water pressures. It addresses the configuration of waterway systems, alignment selection, and types of linings, including considerations related to trends in pumped storage hydropower development. The book discusses characteristics of pervious linings and their implications for design, offers an overview of design methodologies and criteria, and includes a chapter on rock hydraulics, a subject not frequently covered in detail elsewhere. Analytical methods are provided for designing linings, such as reinforced, non-reinforced, passively prestressed concrete linings, and steel liners. The determination of stresses, deformations, and water losses, if any, considers also potential orthotropic mechanical and hydraulic properties of the rock mass as well as grouted or loosened rock zones. Special attention is given to the first filling of waterway systems being often the critical load case.

This is the first comprehensive book in English which covers state-of-the-art design and calculation methods with case studies. It is essential for hydropower and energy project engineers, and graduate students interested in learning more on this topic.

Prof. Dr. Anton J. Schleiss has been full professor and Director of the Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), and previously Head of the Hydraulic Structures Section in the Hydropower Department at Electrowatt Engineering Ltd. (now Pöyry-AFRY) in Zurich. He has more than forty years of experience with large water infrastructures projects and has worked with more than 25 projects all over the world as responsible design engineer or independent expert. He is former president of the International Commission on Large Dams and Council member of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research.

1. Introduction, 2. Arrangements of Waterway Systems, 3. Historical Overview of Design Approaches and Bases, 4. Design Bases, 5. Load Cases and Change of Permeability in Lining and Rock Mass, 6. The Pervious Thick-Walled Cylinder, 7. Design of Pervious Pressure Tunnels for Interal Pressure, 8. Design of Concrete Linings for External Water Pressure During Dewatering and Down-surging, 9. Design of Steel Liners for Internal Water Pressure, 10. Design of Steel Liners for External Water Pressure, 11. First Filling and Dewatering of Waterway systems, 12. Design Concept of Waterway Systems for Hydropower Plants

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.5.2026
Zusatzinfo 19 Tables, black and white; 171 Line drawings, black and white; 43 Halftones, color; 43 Illustrations, color; 171 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Themenwelt Technik Bauwesen
ISBN-10 1-032-12284-6 / 1032122846
ISBN-13 978-1-032-12284-7 / 9781032122847
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