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Biophysical profiling of hydraulic structures

  • Nontraditional Survey Methods in Hydrotechnical Construction
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Conclusions

  1. 1.

    The use of biolocation on the given examples of power facilities being constructed and operated substantially help solving engineering-geological problems, which indictes its rather high practical value in the area of hydrotechnical construction.

  2. 2.

    To increase the accuracy when determining the boundaries of anomalous zones and to eliminate the subjective factor, it is necessary to correlate the method in a qualitative and quantitative respect, which will make it possible to objectively establish the limits of use of biophysical profiling in hydrotechnical construction.

  3. 3.

    Biolocation makes it possible to detect and establish the boundaries of anomalies of geopathogenic zones — channels of vertical circulation of geoenergy in the earth—outer space system, the companions of which are detectable new formations in the soil mass of a natural foundation or artificial earth structures, which gives grounds to consider geopathogenic zones to be objectively existing phenomena of nature, the physical essence of the energetic processes in which is little-studied.

  4. 4.

    Geopathogenic zones are not something static but are quite dynamic systems characterized by phenomena of hyperpolarization, explosion, thermal shock, and temporal fluctuations of the intensity and parameters of georadiations, which causes modification and fracturing of the soil mass of foundations of structures and produces inhomogeneities in artificial earth structures, which are undesirable in hydrotechnical construction.

  5. 5.

    The foregoing indicates the urgent need for a systematic study of channels of vertical circulation of geoenergy, which will make it possible to considerably increase the reliability and environmental safety of hydraulic and other power structures and embankments of slime storages, ash dumps, tailings storages of concentration plants.

  6. 6.

    When investigating archaeological objects of flood zones of reservoirs biolocation is quite promising as a nondestructive method of studying archaeological memorials, since it permits establishing areas of top-priority digs and considerably reduces the cost of archaeological surveys on territories being flooded.

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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 10, pp. 48–55, October, 1995.

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Boltunov, V.A. Biophysical profiling of hydraulic structures. Hydrotechnical Construction 29, 618–631 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02443054

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