Concrete stepped blocks for chute spillways

• Book ID: 103969011
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 168 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0950-0618
• DOI: 10.1016/0950-0618(90)90043-z

✦ Synopsis

The original concept behind the stepped block was developed in Russia by Dr P I Giordienko of the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineers when looking into methods of protecting erodible surfaces subject to high velocity flows. It was further developed by Professor Yuri Pravdivets of the same Institute into a practicable workmanlike solution. Eight successful stepped block spillways have been constructed in the USSR in the past decade.

Outside of the USSR relatively little interest had been shown in the concept prior to the CIRIA study, most probably because of interest by USA and Uk engineers in low-cost methods of upgrading existing spillways using new design concepts.

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