This article is devoted to one relatively small issue of the dynamics of hydraulic structures, the determination of horizontal hydrodynamic loads on energy absorbers of a high-pressure catchment area in a cavitating flow in the presence of erosion-free absorbers. In connection with the intensive construction of high and medium-pressure hydroelectric systems, spillways that operate at high flow rates, a very urgent task is to develop reliable and economical downstream devices that provide intensive damping of flow energy in a stilling well with favorable uninterrupted flow regimes and the absence of cavitation erosion of streamlined elements. Traditional methods of extinguishing energy using stilling wells and walls do not always solve the problem. In several cases, additional elements such as energy absorbers are installed, which effectively deal with malfunctioning currents. However, most of the used types of absorbers have a serious drawback - they are destroyed during cavitation studies by prof. N.P. Rozanov and his students made it possible, based on experiments, to develop several types of erosion-free or close to erosion-free dampers and obtain a dependence to determine the hydrodynamic loads acting on them at various stages of cavitation. This made it possible to use energy absorbers at high flow rates, which was done at the spillways of the Shamkhor and Artyomovsk hydroelectric power plants.

Today, in the construction field, high-strength textile materials are increasingly practiced with the external reinforcement of structural elements. For the manufacture of textile externally reinforcing materials, they are mainly used: fiberglass, basalt, carbon fiber, and other high-strength fibers and threads. In combination with an epoxy or polyester matrix, they form an unconventional building material - carbon fiber. Carbon fiber - in comparison with conventional building materials, it has a number of indisputable advantages, such as high tensile strength, low specific gravity, high ability to resist corrosion. Carbon fiber is currently listed as the most promising material used in construction. However, its use is often limited by high prices for reinforcing material, because of this, the use of such material in the designs of large structures is economically irrational. The conclusion is made that it is necessary to determine the best reinforcement method in which the least amount of material is spent without loss of quality.

Existing methods are considered for designing sedimentation tanks in the Burjar hydroelectric power station to solve the problem of abrasive wear of aggregates. Weighted sediments abrade the lining of derivational and station water conduits, as well as the working elements of hydraulic turbines. In the Burjar hydroelectric power station, there is a problem associated with the abrasive wear of the units. Abrasive wear of turbines leads to a significant drop in their efficiency, and therefore, a decrease in the power and energy generation of a hydroelectric power station, a reduction in the service life of hydroturbine equipment, and a fragment of wear. For the design of the sump, geological and hydrological information was collected about the Burjar hydroelectric power station. The sump is projected onto the derivation channel of the Burjar hydroelectric station. To determine the size of the sump, laboratory analysis of the water of the Burjar hydroelectric station was carried out. The hydraulic calculation of the sump includes determining the main dimensions of the chamber, sediment volume, flushing turbidity, and siltation time of the dead chamber volume with sediment. The calculation is described by the method of academician E.A. Zamarin. According to the method of E.A. Zamarin, the width of the chamber is 9.6 m and the length of the chamber is 73 m. These results are accurate and they were used during the design of the sump.