SELF-ACTING ADJUSTABLE FLOOD-CONTROL STRUCTURE Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: hydraulic building, particularly engineering riverside and marine flood-control structures.

SUBSTANCE: structure comprises pool built along dam adapted to control flood or along bank slope. The pool is provided with drainage tubes with one-way check valve and pipes to supply water from water area. Installed in the pool are protective walls having positive floatability and arranged in continuous row. Protective walls may be displaced in vertical direction. Upper pool part is provided with semi-spherical vault with blocking surface. Overhear closure is mounted along upper end of protective walls. Pool has body and removable dome and is fastened to bridge provided with barrier. The bridge is mounted on base installed on vertical fixed support piles driven in coastal strip and spaced apart one from another. The base is connected with embedded reinforcement members of retaining panel forming slope jacket. Bridge barrier is provided with vertical ribs supported by slope jacket. Protective walls are rigidly connected with hollow durable cylinders from below. The cylinders have packing means arranged at tops thereof.

EFFECT: increased reliability of coastal strip protection against floods, improved automaticity, reduced economic losses.

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