Conclusions
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Caissonless water-wedge lifts are an effective type of navigation structure for overcoming large differences of head.
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Research and development are proving that the construction of large (300×22×5.0 m) water-wedge lifts are technically feasible.
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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 12, pp. 26–29, December, 1981.
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Simakov, G.V., Moshkov, A.B. & Garibin, P.A. Prospects of using caissonless water-wedge ship lifts. Hydrotechnical Construction 15, 750–754 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01432798
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01432798