Dam Construction & Port Infrastructure: Phases, Factors & Types

Continuation Vertical Dykes

Phases in the construction of dams with floating caissons:

Construction, launching, towing, positioning, anchoring, filling, building superstructure.

Factors to Consider in Building:

1. Previous studies
2. Quarry selection
3. Execution control

Previous Studies:

• Geological studies
• Climate studies
• Bathymetric studies
• Organization and valuation
• Execution

Works for Berthing and Mooring:

That perform the following functions: Contact land-sea, surface crossing of goods, creating a terminal area of transportation systems and storage area of goods.

Types:

Dock: A structure with two vertical planes where vessels are attached to a horizontal plane through which the manipulation of goods is done.

Pontoons and platforms: Areas or pathways through which the transit of merchandise occurs.

Dolphin: An isolated structure used for ship berthing, the basic shape is a pile to which the ship is moored.

Floating structures: Equipped with an anchoring system, these are mooring buoys and systems for boat evacuation.

Types of Springs:

Commercial: General cargo, bulk solids, container cranes are transported and is the most used. Roll-on roll-off loading and unloading of goods is done through boulders, bulk liquid crude oil, liquefied gases, sometimes installations for liquefied gas passage.

Other springs: Sports, fishing, shop, military weaponry.

Features and Parts of a Wharf:

Operation area: Refers to the area where the work operation is performed.

Deposit zone: An area where buildings are placed for collection and storage of merchandise, etc.

Tooling for cranes: A set of tools for cranes, road, and pipeline services (phone, light, water, etc.).

Bound coronation, cliff, norais and bollards, fenders.

Building Types of Springs:

Spring containment with vertical cladding, platform dock, mixed pier.

Pier containment with vertical cladding: Acts by a structure made of vertical containment of terrain. (Materials: brick, blocks, boxes, reinforced concrete)

Piers platform: Contains no land in their extrados, this on stilts (inclined, prefabricated, in-situ) and batteries.

Mixed Springs: Batteries with retaining walls and sheet pile.