"Revised and expanded 2nd edition of this core book covering the principal aspects of the design, manufacture, installation and operation of hydraulic gates. Analyses in depth the selection of the gate type, the limits of their use, estimating their weight, operative forces, hoisting systems, design of structure and support elements, seals and hydrostatic and hydrodynamic forces. Inflatable gates and fusegates are also discussed, and new chapters on intake gates and intake trashracks have been added. Canbe used both as a text-book and manual for the design of gates, and includes worked examples, drawings and many photographs to illustrate the concepts and methods involved"--
Hydraulic gates are necessary for dam safety and for the efficient use of water, says Erbisti, and shares his 46 years of experience with them in a companion for anyone dealing with hydraulic gates and their reliability. His topics include types of gates, the basis for selecting a gate type, hydrostatics, structural design, estimating gate weights, hydrodynamic forces, gate opening forces, gate operating forces, aeration, gate hoists, materials, gate seals, trends and innovation in gate design, intake gates, and intake trash-racks. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Revised and updated, this second edition of Design of Hydraulic Gates maintains the same goal as the original: to be used as a textbook and a manual of design of gates, presenting the main aspects of design, manufacture, installation and operation of hydraulic gates, while introducing new products, technologies and calculation procedures. This edition included new chapters on intake gates and trashrack design, highlighting the aspects of safety, operational and maintenance procedures. To improve the strength against structural failure of intake trashracks, the author proposes a series of rigid calculation assumptions, design parameters and manufacturing procedures, which will certainly result in safer trashracks. Some 340 drawings and photographs, 82 tables, 107 references and 23 worked examples help the reader to understand the basic concepts and calculation methods presented.