Renewal of the pressure shaft and surge tank of the Kaunertal power station / Der Neubau des Kraftabstiegs und des Wasserschlosses für das Kaunertalkraftwerk
Author(s): |
Paul Bonapace
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Medium: | journal article |
Language(s): | English, German |
Published in: | Geomechanics and Tunnelling, 2012, n. 5, v. 5 |
Page(s): | 517-526 |
DOI: | 10.1002/geot.201200038 |
Abstract: |
The Kaunertal power station has been in operation since 1965. During one of the regular inspections of the facility, it was noticed that the entire pressure shaft and surge tank must be completely renewed due to the long years of wear and tear. The renewal is necessary as a result of the heavy hydraulic loading from power station peak operation and due to the fact that parts of the pressure shaft were constructed in a then unknown landslip and have since been subjected to additional loading from creep movement of the rock mass. The route of the new pressure shaft will run below the identified landslip with a sufficient safety factor, further south than the existing pressure shaft. The implementation of the project with its heart, the steel lined pressure shaft approx. 1, 430 m long with a diameter of 4.3 m, to be constructed inside a PC segmental lining installed with the progress of the double-shield TBM, will take place in 2012 to 2015. |
Keywords: |
double-shield TBM (DS-TBM) drilling programme construction schedule pressure shaft investigation programme steel lining construction programme
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