Baffle blocks

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Baffle blocks
The canal spillway of Laguna Diversion Dam, shown here, uses a baffle chute drop structure to pass water to a lower elevation. LagunaDiversionDam01.jpg
The canal spillway of Laguna Diversion Dam, shown here, uses a baffle chute drop structure to pass water to a lower elevation.

Baffle blocks are concrete structures with different shapes, for example trapezoidal, [1] used in flowing water to reduce its force.[ citation needed ] They are arranged in several rows in stilling basins. [1] They are used in spillways and dams,[ citation needed ] in irrigation systems, [2] to protect fishes in rivers with hydrotechnical installations, [3] to improve sediment deposition, as a solution to scouring in hydraulic projects [4] and in flood control.

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References

  1. 1 2 Effect of baffle block configurations on characteristics of hydraulic jump in adverse stilling basins, Ali Abbas,Haider Alwash, Ali Mahmood, MATEC Web of Conferences 162, 03005 (2018), matec-conferences.org
  2. ↑ Al-Mansori, Nassrin Jassim Hussien; Alfatlawi, Thair Jabbar Mizhir; Hashim, Khalid S.; Al-Zubaidi, Laith S. (2020). "The Effects of Different Shaped Baffle Blocks on the Energy Dissipation". Civil Engineering Journal. 6 (5): 961–973. doi:10.28991/cej-2020-03091521.
  3. ↑ Huang, Juping; Li, Ran; Feng, Jingjie; Li, Zhe; Cheng, Xiaolong; Wang, Zhenhua (2021). "The application of baffle block in mitigating TDGS of dams with different discharge patterns". Ecological Indicators. 133. Bibcode:2021EcInd.13308418H. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108418 .
  4. ↑ Aydın, M. Cihan; Ulu, Ali Emre (2018). "Effects of different shaped baffle blocks on the energy dissipation and the downstream scour of a regulator". Journal of Science and Technology. 8 (2): 69–74.
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