1st Edition
Design of Pressure Tunnels and Pressure Shafts for Hydropower Plants
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
Biography
Prof. Dr. Anton J. Schleiss is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL)) and was previously Head of the Hydraulic Structures Section in the Hydropower Department at Electrowatt Engineering Ltd. (now AFRY) in Zurich. He has more than 40 years of experience with large water infrastructure projects and has worked on more than 30 pressure tunnel and shaft projects all over the world as a responsible design engineer or an independent expert. He is the former president of the International Commission on Large Dams and a former council member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research.
