A historical overview of the issues of reliability and engineering safety of hydraulic structures is given. Most of the large hydroelectric facilities were put into operation in the middle of the last century. The results of an integrated survey of reinforced-concrete structures of the Zhigulevsk Hydroelectric Power Plant after a half-century period of operation are discussed. The results of technical evaluation of hydraulic structures, including HPP buildings, flow paths of hydraulic units, spillway dam, are presented.
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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel’svo, No. 11, November 2022, pp. 12 – 19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34831/EP.2022.18.18.002
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Vasilevskaya, L.S., Okhapkin, G.V. Technical Evaluation of Reinforced-Concrete Structures of the Zhigulevsk HPP after Long-Term Operation. Power Technol Eng 57, 10–16 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10749-023-01616-7
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