Half a Century of Experience in the Operation of Reinforced Concrete Structuresof the Kislaya Guba Tidal Power Station in the Barents Sea

In the 1960s, in the Barents Sea, for the first time in the world practice of hydropower, the first Russian tidal power plant, the L.B. Bernstein Kislogubskaya TPS, was built by floating method, which has been successfully operating up to the present time. Construction by floating method made it possible to reduce the construction estimate by 30% and speed up the construction period by half. As a result, the structure is recognized in the world as “one of the outstanding structures of the 20th century, the only durable large reinforced concrete structure in the Arctic and a Monument of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation.” The data on the study of the properties of a reinforced concrete fragment in the form of a slab, imitating the wall of the TPS building, are given.

I.N. USACHEV, Candidate of Sciences (Engineering), Honored Worker and Honorary Hydropower Engineer of the Energy Industry of the Russian Federation(This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.),
N.K. ROZENTAL, Doctor of Sciences (Engineering), Professor (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Research Center of Construction JSC (6 2nd Institutskaya Street, Moscow, 109428, Russian Federation)

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