Design of Pressure Tunnels and Shafts for Hydropower Plants

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-12284-7
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schleiss, Anton

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauingenieurwesen
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Dämme, Wasserspeicher und Talsperren (Bauingenieurwesen)
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Hydraulik, Pneumatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.