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    This document provides an overview and summary of the book "Lock Gates and Other Closures in Hydraulic Projects" which discusses the design, operation, and maintenance of hydraulic gates and closures used in navigation locks, flood barriers, weirs, and other water infrastructure projects. The book covers gate types, selection criteria, design loads, structural analysis, construction, and asset management. It aims to be a valuable reference for engineers working on controlling water resources and mitigating flood risks.

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    Lock Gates and Other Closures in Hydraul

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    This document provides an overview and summary of the book "Lock Gates and Other Closures in Hydraulic Projects" which discusses the design, operation, and maintenance of hydraulic gates and closures used in navigation locks, flood barriers, weirs, and other water infrastructure projects. The book covers gate types, selection criteria, design loads, structural analysis, construction, and asset management. It aims to be a valuable reference for engineers working on controlling water resources and mitigating flood risks.

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    Lock Gates and Other Closures in

    Hydraulic Projects
    Ryszard Daniel,
    Daniel, Senior Consultant and Design Leader, Rijkswaterstaat,
    The Netherlands and Tim Paulus,
    Paulus, Senior Mechanical Engineer, US
    Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

    A valuable reference for controlling


    controlling inland navigation and water
    resources protecting low-lying
    resources, low lying coastal areas, mitigating flood
    risks, facilitating harbor procedures,
    risks, procedure generating hydroelectricity,
    hydroelectricity
    and other water related activities
    KEY FEATURES
    • Presentss extensive coverage of the operational profiles of hydraulic closures,
    ISBN: 978-0-12-809264-4 including gates and valves in navigation locks, closures of flood barriers,
    PUB DATE: December
    December 2018 movable closures of o river weirs and spillways,
    s, and more.
    LIST PRICE: $200.00 / • Outlines the different structural types of hydraulic gates, including miter
    €175.00 / £155.00* gates, vertical lift gates, flap and hinged crest gates, radial gates, rolling and
    FORMAT: Paperback barge gates, sector
    ector gates and many other.
    • Clearly outlines the selection process for gates in navigation
    igation locks, spillways,
    PAGES: c. 994
    river weirs, flood barriers, hydroelectric plants, shipyard
    yard docks and other
    AUDIENCE: hydraulic structures.
    structure
    • Provides comprehensive discussion of design loads and other actions to
    Civil and structural engineers, which hydraulic gates may be subjected during their service life, followed by
    mechanical engineers, coastal an overview of analysis methods and tools.
    engineers, graduate students • Addresses the current challenges and concerns in hydraulic gate projects,
    in these fields, designers, such as risk-based
    risk based design, sustainability issues,
    issues, environmental implications
    constructors and managers of
    constructors of hydraulic gates, handling accidents and calamities, and gate maintenance
    hydraulic projects. in view of asset management.
    • Presents the experience from many recent projects in Europe and America,America
    including the rolling gates in large European sea locks, gates of the Panama
    Canal new locks, flood od barriers in New Orleans and the Netherlands.
    CONTENTS
    1.
    1 Introduction
    2
    2. Operation Profiles of Hydraulic Closures
    3
    3. Structural Types of Hydraulic Gates
    4
    4. Selection of a Gate Type
    5
    5. Design Loads and Load Combinations
    6
    6. Other Actions and Risks
    “Lock
    Lock Gates and Other Closures 7
    7. Structural Analysis
    in Hydraulic Projects offers a 8
    8. Detailed Gate Design
    large collection of expertise 9
    9. Auxiliary Structures and Systems
    that should satisfy every 10
    10. Filling and Emptying Valves and Gates
    practically oriented engineer, 11
    11. Introduction to Gate Drives
    manager or student in this 12
    12. Sustainable Gate Design
    field.” 13
    13. Construction Materials
    Professor
    essor Philippe Rigo, 14
    14. Project Execution Control
    University of Liège, Belgium, chairman of
    PIANC Inland Navigation Commission
    15
    15. Maintenance Issues
    16
    16. Handling Accidents and Calamities
    17
    17. Hydraulic Gates in View of Asset Management

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