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外文原文OVERFLOW SPILLWAYAn overflow spillway is a section of dam designed to permit water to pass over its crest. Overflow spillways are widely used on gravity, arch, and buttress dams. Some earth dams have a concrete gravity section designed to serve as a spillway. The design of the spillway for tow dams is not usually critical, and a variety of simple crest patterns are used. In the case of large dams it is important that the overflowing water be guided smoothly over the crest with a minimum of turbulence. If the overflowing water breaks contact with the spillway surface, a vacuum will form at the point of separation and cavitations may occur. Cavitations plus the vibration from the alternates making and breaking of contact between the water and the face of the dam may result in serious structural damage.Cavities filled with vapor, air, and other gases will form in a liquid whenever the absolute pressure of the liquid is close to the vapor pressure. This phenomenon, cavitations, is likely to occur where high velocities cause reduced pressure. Such conditions may arise if the walls of a passage are so sharply curved as to cause separation of flow from the boundary. The cavity, on moving downstream, may enter a region where the absolute is much higher. This causes the vapor in the cavity to condense and return to liquid with a resulting implosion, or collapse, extremely high pressure result. Some of the implosive activity will occur at the surfaces of the passage and in the crevices and pores of the boundary material. Under a continual bombardment of these implosions, the surface undergoes fatigue failure and small particles are broken away, giving the surface a spongy appearance. This damaging action of cavitations is called pitting.The ideal spillway would take the form of the underside of the napped of a sharp-crested weir when the flow rate corresponds to the maximum design capacity of the spillway. More exact profiles may be found in more extensive treatments of the subject. The reverse curve on the downstream face of the spillway should be smooth and gradual; A radius of about one-fourth of the spillway height has proved satisfactory. Structural design of an ogee spillway is essentially the same as the design of a concrete gravity section. The pressure exerted on the crest of the spillway by the flowing water and the drag forces caused by fluid friction are usually small in comparison with the other forces acting on the section. The change in momentum of the flow in the vicinity of the reverse curve may, however, create a force which must be considered. The requirements of the ogee shape usually necessitate a thicker section than the adjacent no overflow sections.A saving of concrete can be effected by providing a projecting corbel on the upstream face to control the flow in outlet conduits through the dam, a corbel will interfere with gate operation.The discharge of an overflow spillway is given by the weir equation Where Q=discharge, or L=coefficienth=head on the spillway (vertical distance from the crest of the spillway to the reservoir level), mThe coefficient varies with the design and head. Experimental models are often used to determine spillway coefficient. End contractions on a spillway reduce the effective length below the actual length L. Square-cornered piers disturb the flow considerably and reduce the effective length by the width of the piers plus about 0.2h for each pier.Streamlining the piers or flaring the spillway entrance minimizes the flow disturbance. If the cross-sectional area of the reservoir just upstream from the spillway is less than five times the area of flow over the spillway, the approach velocity with increase the discharge a noticeable amount. The effect of approach velocity can be accounted for by the equation where is the approach velocity. PROPERTIES OF CONCRETE The characteristics of concrete should be considered in relation to the quality for any given construction purpose. The closest practicable approach to perfection in every property of the concrete would result in poor economy under many conditions, and the most desirable structure is that in which the concrete has been designed with the correct emphasis on each of the various properties of the concrete, and not solely with a view to obtaining, say, the maximum possible strength. Although the attainment of the maximum strength should not be the sole criterion in design, the measurement of the crushing strength of concrete cubes or cylinders provides a means of maintaining a uniform standard of quality, and, in fact, is the usual way of doing so. Since the other properties of any particular mix of concrete are related to the crushing strength in some manner, it is possible that as a single control test it is still the most convenient and informative.The testing of the hardened concrete in prefabricated units presents no difficulty, since complete units can be selected and broken if necessary in the process of testing. Samples can be taken from some parts of a finished structure by cutting cores, but at consider one cost and with a possible weakening of the structure. It is customs, therefore, to estimate the properties of the concrete in the structure on the oasis of the tests made on specimens mounded from the fresh concrete as it is placed. These specimens are compacted and cured in a standard manner given in BS 1881 in 1970 as in these two respects it is impossible to simulate exactly the conditions in the structure. Since the crushing structure is also affected by the size and shape of a specimen or part of a structure, it follows that the crushing strength of a cube is not necessary the same as that of the mass of exactly the same concrete.Crushing strengthConcrete can be made having a strength in compression of up to about 80N/,or even more depending mainly on the relative proportions of water and cement, that is, the water/cement ratio, and the degree of compaction. Crushing strengths of between 20 and 50 N/ at 28 days are normally obtained on the site with reasonably good supervision, for mixes roughly equivalent to 1:2:4 of cement: sand: coarse aggregate. In some types of precast concrete such as railway sleepers, strengths ranging from 40 to 65 N/ at 28 days are obtained with rich mixes having a low water/cement ratio.The crushing strength of concrete is influenced by a number of factors in addition to the water/cement ratio and the degree of compaction. The more important factors are Type of cement and its quality. Both the rate of strength gain and the ultimate strength may be affected.Type and surface texture of aggregate. There is considerable evidence to suggest that some aggregates produce concrete of greater compressive and tensile strengths than obtained with smooth river gravels.Efficiency of curing. A loss in strength of up to about 40 per cent may result from premature drying out. Curing is therefore of considerable, importance both in the field and in the making of tests. The method of curing concrete test cubes given in BS 1881 should, for this reason, be strictly adhered to.Temperature In general, the rate of hardening of concrete is increased by an increase temperature. At freezing temperatures the crushing strength may remain low for some time.Age Under normal conditions increase in strength with age, the rate of increase depending on the type of cement with age. For instance, high alumina cement produces concrete with a crushing strength at 21 hours equal to that of normal Portland cement concrete at 28 days. Hardening continues but at a much slower rate for a number of years. The above refers to the static ultimate load. When subjected to repeated loads concrete fails at a load smaller than the ultimate static load, a fatigue effect. A number of investigators have established that after several million cycles of loading, the fatigue strength in compression is 50-60 per cent of the ultimate static strength.Tensile and flexural strength The tensile strength of concrete varies from one-eighth of the compressive strength at early ages to about one- twentieth later, and is not usually taken into account in the design of reinforced concrete structures. The tensile strength is, however, of considerable importance in resisting cracking due to changes in moisture content or temperature. Tensile strength tests are used for concrete roads and airfields. The measurement of the strength of concrete in direct tension is difficult and is rarely attempted. Two more practical methods of assessing tensile strength are available. One gives a measure of the tensile strength in bending, usually termed the flexural strength. BS 1881:1970 gives details concerning the making and curing of flexure test specimens, and of the method test. The standard size of specimen is 150 150750 long for aggregate of maximum size 40. If the largest nominal size of the aggregate is 20, specimens 100 100750 long may be used. A load is applied through two rollers at the third points of the span until the specimen breaks. The extreme fiber stresses, that is, compressive at the top and tensile at the bottom, can then be computed by the usual beam formulae. The beam will obviously fail in tension since the tensile strength is much lower than the compressive strength. Formulae for the calculation of the modulus of rupture are given in BS 1881:1970. Test specimens is the form of beams are sometimes used to measure the modulus of rupture or flexural strength quickly on the site. The two halves of the specimen may then be crushed so that besides the flexural strength the compressive strength can be approximately determined on the same sample. The test is described in BS 1881:1970. Values of the modulus of rupture are utilized in some methods of design of unreinforced concrete roads and runways, in which reliance is placed on the flexural strength of the concrete to distribute concentrated loads over a wide area. More recently introduced is a test made by splitting cylinders by compression across the diameter, to give what is termed the splitting tensile strength; Details of the method are given in BS 1881:1970. Values of the modulus of rupture are utilized in some methods of design of unreinforced concrete roads and runways, in which reliance is place on the flexural strength of the concrete to distribute concentrated loads over a wide area. More recently introduced is a test made by splitting cylinders by compression across the diameter, to give what is termed the splitting tensile strength; Details of the method are given in BS 1881:1970. the testing machine is fitted with an extra bearing bar to distribute the load along the full length of the cylinder Plywood strips, 12mm wide and 3mm thick are inserted between the cylinder and the testing machine bearing surfaces top and bottom.From the maximum applied load at failure the tensile splitting strength is calculated as follows: Where splitting tensile strength, N/ P=maximum applied load in N l=length of cylinder in mm d=diameter in mm As in the case of the compressive strength, repeated loading reduces the ultimate strength so that the fatigue strength in flexure is 50-60 per cent of the static strength.Shear strength In practice, shearing of concrete is always accompany compression and tension caused by bending, and even in testing is impossible to staminate an element of bending. RESERVOIRSWhen a barrier is constructed across some river in the form of a dam, water gets stored up on the upstream side of the barrier, forming a pool of water, generally called a reservoir.Broadly speaking, any water collected in a pool or a lake may be termed as a reservoir. The water stored in reservoir may be used for various purposes. Depending upon the purposes served, the reservoirs may be classified as follows:Storage or Conservation Reservoirs.Flood Control Reservoirs.Distribution Reservoirs.Multipurpose reservoirs.(1) Storage or Conservation Reservoirs. A city water supply, irrigation water supply or a hydroelectric project drawing water directly from a river or a stream may fail to satisfy the consumers demands during extremely low flows, while during high flows; it may become difficult to carry out their operation due to devastating floods. A storage or a conservation reservoir can retain such excess supplies during periods of peak flows and can release them gradually during low flows as and when the need arise.Incidentally, in addition to conserving water for later use, the storage of flood water may also reduce flood damage below the reservoir. Hence, a reservoir can be used for controlling floods either solely or in addition to other purposes. In the former case, it is known as Flood Control Reservoir or Single Purpose Flood Control Reservoir, and in the later case, it is called a Multipurpose Reservoir.(2) Flood Control Reservoirs A flood control reservoir or generally called flood-mitigation reservoir, stores a portion of the flood flows in such a way as to minimize the flood peaks at the areas to be protected downstream. To accomplish this, the entire inflow entering the reservoir is discharge till the outflow reaches the safe capacity of the channel downstream. The inflow in excess of this rate is stored in stored in the reservoir, which is then gradually released so as to recover the storage capacity for next flood.The flood peaks at the points just downstream of the reservoir are thus reduced by an amount AB. A flood control reservoir differs from a conservation reservoir only in its need for a large sluice-way capacity to permit rapid drawdown before or after a flood.Types of flood control reservoirs. There are tow basic types of flood-mitigation reservoir.Storage Reservoir or Detention basins.Retarding basins or retarding reservoirs. A reservoir with gates and valves installation at the spillway and at the sluice outlets is known as a storage-reservoir, while on the other hand, a reservoir with ungated outlet is known as a retarding basin. Functioning and advantages of a retarding basin: A retarding basin is usually provided with an uncontrolled spillway and an uncontrolled orifice type sluiceway. The automatic regulation of outflow depending upon the availability of water takes place from such a reservoir. The maximum discharging capacity of such a reservoir should be equal to the maximum safe carrying capacity of the channel downstream. As flood occurs, the reservoir gets filled and discharges through sluiceways. As the reservoir elevation increases, outflow discharge increases. The water level goes on rising until the flood has subsided and the inflow becomes equal to or less than the outflow. After this, water gets automatically withdrawn from the reservoir until the stored water is completely discharged. The advantages of a retarding basin over a gate controlled detention basin are: Cost of gate installations is save. There are no fates and hence, the possibility of human error and negligence in their operation is eliminated.Since such a reservoir is not always filled, much of land below the maximum reservoir level will be submerged only temporarily and occasionally and can be successfully used for agriculture, although no permanent habitation can be allowed on this land.Functioning and advantages of a storage reservoir:A storage reservoir with gated spillway and gated sluiceway, provides more flexibility of operation, and thus gives us better control and increased usefulness of the reservoir. Storage reservoirs are, therefore, preferred on large rivers which require batter controlled and regulated properly so as not to cause their coincidence. This is the biggest advantage of such a reservoir and outweighs its disadvantages of being costly and involving risk of human error in installation and operation of gates. (3) Distribution Reservoirs A distribution reservoir is a small storage reservoir constructed within a city water supply system. Such a reservoir can be filled by pumping water at a certain rate and can be used to supply water even at rates higher than the inflow rate during periods of maximum demands (called critical periods of demand). Such reservoirs are, therefore, helpful in permitting the pumps or water treatment plants to work at a uniform rate, and they store water during the hours of no demand or less demand and supply water from their storage during the critical periods of maximum demand. (4) Multipurpose Reservoirs A reservoir planned and constructed to serve not only one purpose but various purposes together is called a multipurpose reservoir. Reservoir, designed for one purpose, incidentally serving other purpose, shall not be called a multipurpose reservoir, but will be called so, only if designed to serve those purposes also in addition to its main purpose. Hence, a reservoir designed to protect the downstream areas from floods and also to conserve water for water supply, irrigation, industrial needs, hydroelectric purposes, etc. shall be called a multipurpose reservoir. THE ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM A great amount of effort is necessary to maintain an electric power supply within the requirement of the various types of customers served. Large investments are necessary, and continuing advancements in methods must be made as loads steadily increase from year to year. Some of the requirements for electric power supply are recognized by most consumers, such as proper voltage, availability of power on demand, reliability, and reasonable cost. Other characteristics, such as frequency, wave shape, and phase balance, are se