The impact of a hydroelectric power station on the development and modernization of the Bajina Basta settlement during the socialist period

Abstract

During the process of socialist modernization, initiated after WWII, large development projects in Serbia were the main drivers of urban transformation. Electrification and industrialization resulted in the establishment of new production modes, which defined a new socioeconomic background for the development of settlements and the modification of their functional and morphological structure. The construction of the Bajina Bašta hydroelectric power station, in the middle section of the Drina River in western Serbia, was one of the development projects, and it triggered the transformation of the environment, upgrading the prewar small town of Bajina Bašta into a new urban node, adjusted to the socialist imperatives and standards of progress.

Risk Management of a Hydro Power Plant – Fracture Mechanics Approach

“…After defining probability, it is a simple matter to make the risk matrix, combining consequences with probabilities. According to the description given in table 1, explosion of the pressure vessel, considered here, corresponds to the category 5, because of potentially catastrophic scenario, as defined in [3,4]. As one can see, points 1 and 4 have the highest risk, then comes point 2, whereas points 3 and 5 have moderate risk.…”

“…its most critical components, like pressure vessels for air storage. Having in mind relatively simple geometry, so-called engineering approach has been used, including the risk matrix analysis, [2][3][4] 2 HPP BAJINA BASTA -GENERAL DESCRIPTION [3,4] Reversable HPP "Bajina Bašta" operates within the HPP "Bajina Basta", Fig. 1, and represents the expansion of the existing plant, thus enhancing the energy characteristics of HPP "Bajina Basta" to the extent that they create a new modified plant with a very high flexibility, a high guaranteed power and a large amount of accumulated energy from hydroelectric power station.…”