Catalog Record
S&T Project 21051: Hydraulic Concrete Surfaces for Water Resource Structures - Continued Collaboration
Water resource facilities operated by the Brazilian and United States Government are faced with cavitation and erosion of concrete surfaces of spillways and stilling basins and each have made many costly repairs that impact operations. The Bureau of Reclamation has been collaborating with Brazilian government companies and universities to study flow induced problems encountered at concrete surfaces in spillways and stilling basins by combining concrete materials testing with hydraulic laboratory studies. This report summarizes research efforts made to date and highlights laboratory testing in Brazilian laboratories in 2023 which culminated in a Reclamation site visit to Brazil to witness laboratory testing.
Generation Effort
S&T Project 21051: Hydraulic Concrete Surfaces for Water Resource Structures - Continued Collaboration
Themes
Infrastructure and Assets
Reclamation Project
Reclamation Program
Science and Technology Program
Location Information
Location Name
Technical Service Center (TSC) Hydraulics Laboratory
Location Description
The Technical Service Center Hydraulics Lab is a 54,000 square foot indoor lab facility that is used to perform physical hydraulic model studies with flow capacities up to 60 cfs and 600 ft of pressure head, with fixed and variable-slope flumes and a low-ambient pressure chamber. The Hydraulic Investigations & Laboratory Services staff apply hydraulic modeling, analysis, and laboratory and field measurements expertise to the solution of water resources, hydraulics, and fluid mechanics problems. The TSC Hydraulics Lab is located at the Denver Federal Center, 6th and Kipling, Building 56, Denver, Colorado 80225-0007.
Location Parent
State(s)
Colorado
Unified Region(s)
Upper Colorado Basin
Timezone
MT
Elevation
5,619 ft
Vertical Datum
NAVD88
Coordinates (lat, long)
(39.7225, -105.12194)
Horizontal Datum
WGS84
