Increasing the effectiveness of control of hydraulic structures of electric plants

Abstract

From the Editors. The significant development of hydraulic construction in the USSR determines a permanent increase in the requirements for operating reliability of hydraulic structures. The prospects for steady development of Soviet power underline the great importance of ensuring accident-free operation of hydraulic structures for reliable delivery, to the national economy, of the capacity from hydraulic, thermal, and nuclear power plants, as well as the need for improving, for this purpose, the means and methods of field control of hydraulic structures at the electric plants under construction and in operation. The articles published below are devoted to problems of further improvement of field control of hydraulic structures of electric plants. The Editorial Board hopes that this material will be useful also from the viewpoint of exchange of field control experience, as well as for determination of future scientific and technical activities in this direction. The Editorial Board requests the readers of this Journal to send comments about the published material and to participate in discussions, on these pages, of the problems raised.

Improving the operation of hydroelectric plants and the journal's role in the dissemination of leading experience

“…Measures taken to ensure the reliability of structures at the Bratsk and Chirkey hydroelectric plants serve as examples of the efficiency of field monitoring. A major study conducted in recent years to improve the monitoring of hydraulic structures was consumated by the creation of a branch system to inspect the safety of hydraulic structures; in the future, this system muss be improved, its efficiency increased chiefly from the standpoint of rapid elimination of deficiencies that reduce their reliabillty [10].…”