BEARING FORCES OF EMERGENCY GATE DURING SHUTOFF

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BEARING FORCES OF EMERGENCY GATE DURING SHUTOFF

For an emergency gate in a surge tank, forces acting on the gate were systematically tested and analyzed, including pulling forces resulted from water hammer because of the sudden rejection of all loads in turbine units under different gate levels, and forces during the process of gate shutoff under the conditions of different number of running turbine units. Besides, for the pulling force on the top of gate, their variation processes with time and extent of gate opening were also tested. It is shown that the calculated value of gate pulling force agrees on the whole with the tested one. The results indicate that the emergency gate in the extraordinary large surge tank of WWS hydropower station is safe under the above testing conditions. The related data in the present paper are helpful for the study on an emergency in a sure tank.