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Prediction of Safety Level of Low-Head and Ownerless Hydraulic Structures

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Methods of systems reliability theory are applied to the results of an expert inspection of more than 1000 low-head hydraulic power systems in the Moscow region. The rates of failure of homogeneous earth dams are estimated. A state graph of a hydraulic structure, represented as a system that passes through discrete states from a normal to a dangerous level without maintenance or repair, is proposed. The constant failure rates for these states are calculated. The probabilistic characteristics of the safety level of low-head earth dams are predicted.

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  1. Russian State Agrarian University, Timiryazev MTAA, Moscow, Russia

    V. I. Volkov & V. L. Snezhko

  2. Moscow State Civil Engineering University (national university), Moscow, Russia

    D. V. Kozlov

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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel’stvo, No. 11, November 2018, pp. 35 – 41.

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Volkov, V.I., Snezhko, V.L. & Kozlov, D.V. Prediction of Safety Level of Low-Head and Ownerless Hydraulic Structures. Power Technol Eng 53, 23–28 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10749-019-01028-6

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