CN111005350B - Flood prevention device - Google Patents

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CN111005350B
CN111005350B CN201911370300.8A CN201911370300A CN111005350B CN 111005350 B CN111005350 B CN 111005350B CN 201911370300 A CN201911370300 A CN 201911370300A CN 111005350 B CN111005350 B CN 111005350B
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The invention discloses a flood prevention device which is formed by splicing and combining a plurality of independent flood prevention units; the flood prevention unit comprises a bottom plate, a support frame, a steel plate, energy absorption sponges, a buffer baffle plate and buffer stop bars; energy-absorbing sponge is laid on the steel plate; the distance between the inclined planes of the steel plate back to the bottom plate is provided with a buffer baffle; a plurality of buffer stop strips are arranged on the horizontal plane back to the bottom plate; the buffering barrier strip is flexible and comprises two carbon fiber nets, two sponge strips and a plurality of sponge particles. The invention can effectively reduce the impact force of water flow; the energy-absorbing sponge can further reduce the impact force, and particularly after the energy-absorbing sponge is wetted by the current flood peak, the impact force can be obviously reduced after the flood peak water flow coming again meets the energy-absorbing sponge with water; and the weight of the energy-absorbing sponge is greatly increased after absorbing moisture, the flood prevention device has stronger water-resistant pressure, the bottom plate is not easy to displace after the lower pressure applied to the bottom plate is increased, and the energy-absorbing sponge has lighter weight because the energy-absorbing sponge does not absorb moisture during installation and is convenient to carry.

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Flood prevention device
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of flood prevention and water blocking, in particular to a flood prevention device.
Background
As the water level is constantly changed due to the tidal change of rivers or seawater in nature, particularly the flood caused by heavy rain and the change of the height of a riverbed, once a heavy tide or a flood peak occurs, the water level exceeds the dam built on the river bank, and great damage is caused to the life of people. Especially, when the water flow of the flood peak reaches the dam for the first time, the impact force of the water flow to the dam is the largest, once the dam has water with a certain depth, the force borne by the dam mainly comes from the pressure of the water flow, the impact force of the water flow borne by the dam is weakened, and if the dam can resist the impact of the flood peak every time, the probability of dam break is greatly reduced. The traditional flood prevention facilities are sand bags, and the sand piles with certain height and length are stacked to play a role in flood prevention, so that the sand bags can play a role in buffering and energy absorption to a certain extent, and the impact force of water flow is reduced; however, the sand pile is formed by overlapping a plurality of sand bags, the impact resistance of the contact part of the adjacent sand bags is poor, the part is easily broken by water flow, and the sand pile is heavy and is difficult to carry; in recent years, various new flood prevention facilities appear, for example, a plurality of spliced steel plates are used for blocking water flow or heightening a dam to achieve the flood prevention purpose, but the steel plates lack an effective buffer structure, have poor water flow impact resistance, are easy to bend or are easy to crack at the joint of the adjacent steel plates when the water flow directly impacts the steel plates, and are easy to cause dam break.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problems that the flood prevention device in the prior art is poor in water flow impact resistance, poor in energy absorption effect and easy to displace, and provides the flood prevention device which can effectively absorb water flow impact force, is good in energy absorption and buffering effect and strong in ground holding power.
In order to achieve the purpose, the flood prevention device is formed by splicing and combining a plurality of independent flood prevention units; the flood prevention unit comprises a bottom plate, a support frame, a steel plate, energy absorption sponges, a buffer baffle and buffer stop bars;
the bottom plate is horizontally arranged, and the steel plate is obliquely arranged above the bottom plate and is connected with the bottom plate through a plurality of support frames; energy-absorbing sponge with the thickness of more than 1cm is paved on the inclined plane of the steel plate back to the bottom plate;
the steel plate comprises an inclined section and a horizontal section which are integrally formed; the distance between the inclined planes of the inclined sections back to the bottom plate is provided with a buffer baffle; a plurality of buffer stop strips are arranged on the horizontal plane of the horizontal section back to the bottom plate;
the buffer baffle is connected with the steel plate through connecting rods arranged on two opposite sides of the buffer baffle, the buffer baffle comprises two half plates, the adjacent sides of the half plates are abutted, the opposite sides of the half plates are hinged with the connecting rods, and buffer springs are connected between the half plates and the steel plate;
the buffer barrier strip is flexible and comprises two carbon fiber nets, two sponge strips and a plurality of sponge particles; the two carbon fiber nets and the two sponge strips are alternately connected to form a hollow pipe body; a plurality of the sponge particles are arranged in the tube body at longitudinal intervals.
Furthermore, the flood prevention unit further comprises two string bags arranged at the butt positions of the half plates, and two ends of each string bag are connected with the two half plates respectively.
Further, the buffer stop bars are arranged in a staggered mode.
Further, the height of a plurality of buffer stop bars is gradually increased along the upward inclined direction of the steel plate.
Further, the inclined sections are at least two, and the horizontal section is located between the inclined sections.
And furthermore, the adjacent flood prevention units are connected through connecting pieces in a threaded manner.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: the impact force of the water flow can be effectively reduced through the action of the buffer baffle and the buffer barrier strip; the energy-absorbing sponge can further reduce the impact force, and particularly after the energy-absorbing sponge is wetted by the current flood peak, the impact force can be obviously reduced after the flood peak water flow coming again meets the energy-absorbing sponge with water; and the weight of the energy-absorbing sponge is greatly increased after absorbing moisture, the flood prevention device has stronger water-resistant pressure, the bottom plate is not easy to displace after the lower pressure applied to the bottom plate is increased, and the energy-absorbing sponge has lighter weight because the energy-absorbing sponge does not absorb moisture during installation and is convenient to carry.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a flood prevention unit of the flood prevention device of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic perspective view of the flood prevention unit in fig. 1 after water flow impact.
Fig. 3 is a partial structural view of a buffer spring between the buffer stop and the steel plate in fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional perspective view of one of the bumper bars of fig. 1.
Fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of the flood prevention device formed by connecting a plurality of flood prevention units in fig. 1.
In the figure, a bottom plate 1, a support frame 2, a steel plate 3, an energy absorption sponge 4, a buffer baffle 5, a buffer barrier strip 6, a connecting rod 7, a half plate 8, a net bag 9, a buffer spring 10, a carbon fiber net 11, a sponge strip 12 and sponge particles 13.
Detailed Description
The principles and features of this invention are described below in conjunction with the following drawings, which are set forth by way of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
The flood prevention device shown in the figures 1-5 is formed by splicing and combining a plurality of independent flood prevention units, adjacent flood prevention units are connected through connecting pieces in a threaded mode, the connecting pieces can be metal blocks or sealing metal strips, and only the steel plates 3 of the two flood prevention units need to be connected into a whole, and the connecting pieces can be in the prior art. The flood prevention device formed by connecting and assembling the plurality of flood prevention units is shown in fig. 5.
As shown in fig. 1, the flood prevention unit comprises a bottom plate 1, a support frame 2, a steel plate 3, an energy absorption sponge 4, a buffer baffle 5 and a buffer stop strip 6;
the bottom plate 1 is horizontally arranged, and the steel plate 3 is obliquely arranged above the bottom plate 1 and is connected with the bottom plate through a plurality of support frames 2; an energy-absorbing sponge 4 with the thickness more than 1cm is paved on the inclined plane of the steel plate 3 back to the bottom plate 1; the lower end face of the bottom plate 1 can be provided with an anti-skid groove, the edge of the bottom plate 1 can be provided with a through hole for inserting a bolt, and the bolt is inserted into the ground so as to firmly fix the bottom plate 1 on the ground.
The steel plate 3 comprises at least two inclined sections and horizontal sections which are integrally formed, the horizontal sections are positioned among the plurality of inclined sections, the number of the inclined sections is two in the embodiment, the specific height of each inclined section can be set to be different according to different types of flood prevention devices, for example, the height of each inclined section can be 1m or 0.5 m; the distance between the inclined planes of the inclined sections back to the bottom plate 1 is provided with a buffer baffle 5; a plurality of buffer stop bars 6 are arranged on the horizontal plane of the horizontal section back to the bottom plate 1; the buffer stop strips 6 are arranged in a staggered way. The heights of the plurality of buffer bars 6 are gradually increased in a direction in which the steel plate 3 is inclined upward. Buffering blend stop 6 not only can play the effect of slowing down rivers impact force, because its setting is at the horizontal segment of steel sheet 3, the buffering blend stop 6 after absorbing moisture has effectively increased the perpendicular decurrent pressure that steel sheet 3 received moreover, makes the difficult emergence displacement of flood prevention unit, is applicable to the earth ground that is not convenient for insert the bolt.
The buffer baffle 5 is connected with the steel plate 3 through connecting rods 7 arranged on two opposite sides of the buffer baffle 5, the buffer baffle 5 comprises two half plates 8, the adjacent sides of the half plates 8 are abutted, the opposite sides are hinged with the connecting rods 7, and buffer springs 10 are connected between the half plates 8 and the steel plate 3; the two half plates 8 are connected with a net bag 9, and two ends of the net bag 9 are respectively connected with the two half plates 8. When the buffer baffle 5 is impacted by water flow, the abutting part of the half plate 8 is pushed open, the buffer spring 10 is compressed, the water flow passes through the net bag 9 and then impacts the energy-absorbing sponge 4 at the position corresponding to the buffer baffle 5, and finally impacts the steel plate 3 at the corresponding position; when the impact force of the water flow is reduced, the buffer spring 10 returns to push the half plate 8 back, and the water flow impacting the steel plate 3 at the corresponding position is reduced. Buffer baffle 5 and the 3 slope sections of steel sheet that correspond form a buffer area, and rivers strike steel sheet 3 after the buffer area earlier, effectively reduce the impact force, and the rivers striking steel sheet 3 of buffer area turn to the in-process after meet energy-absorbing sponge 4, buffer baffle 5, buffering blend stop 6, its power attenuates gradually, and the impact force reduces gradually.
The buffer barrier strip 6 is flexible and comprises two carbon fiber nets 11, two sponge strips 12 and a plurality of sponge particles 13; two carbon fiber nets 11 and two sponge strips 12 are alternately connected to form a hollow pipe body; a plurality of sponge particles 13 are arranged in the tube body at intervals longitudinally. When rivers strike buffering blend stop 6, as shown in fig. 2, buffering blend stop 6 is crooked along the rivers direction, and because two offsides of body are carbon fiber net 11, water can be smoothly through in the carbon fiber net 11 admission pipe of one side, nevertheless because the internal interval of body is equipped with polylith sponge grain 13, the rivers that get into in the pipe need pierce through behind the polylith sponge grain 13 just can follow the carbon fiber net 11 outflow of opposite side, and velocity of water and impact force are all reduced. The sponge particles 13 after water absorption increase the weight of the buffer stop bars 6, so that the vertical pressure of the horizontal section is further increased, the pressure of the whole flood prevention unit on the ground is higher, and the flood prevention unit is not easy to be broken down.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "central," "longitudinal," "lateral," "length," "width," "thickness," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "clockwise," "counterclockwise," "axial," "radial," "circumferential," and the like are used in the orientations and positional relationships indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the invention and to simplify the description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and are therefore not to be considered limiting of the invention.
Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.
In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and can, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship, unless expressly stated otherwise. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may be directly contacting the first and second features or indirectly contacting the first and second features through an intermediate. Also, a first feature "on," "over," and "above" a second feature may be directly or diagonally above the second feature, or may simply indicate that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature may be directly under or obliquely under the first feature, or may simply mean that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.
In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, various embodiments or examples and features of different embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, it is understood that the above embodiments are exemplary and should not be construed as limiting the present invention, and that variations, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the above embodiments by those of ordinary skill in the art within the scope of the present invention.

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1. A flood prevention device is formed by splicing and combining a plurality of independent flood prevention units; the method is characterized in that: the flood prevention unit comprises a bottom plate (1), a support frame (2), a steel plate (3), an energy absorption sponge (4), a buffer baffle (5) and a buffer stop strip (6);
the bottom plate (1) is horizontally arranged, and the steel plate (3) is obliquely arranged above the bottom plate (1) and is connected with the bottom plate through a plurality of support frames (2); an energy-absorbing sponge (4) with the thickness of more than 1cm is paved on the inclined surface of the steel plate (3) back to the bottom plate (1);
the steel plate (3) comprises an inclined section and a horizontal section which are integrally formed; the distance between the inclined planes of the inclined sections back to the bottom plate (1) is provided with a buffer baffle (5); a plurality of buffer stop strips (6) are arranged on the horizontal surface of the horizontal section back to the bottom plate (1);
the buffer baffle (5) is connected with the steel plate (3) through connecting rods (7) arranged on two opposite sides of the buffer baffle, the buffer baffle (5) comprises two half plates (8), the adjacent sides of the half plates (8) are abutted, the opposite sides of the half plates are hinged with the connecting rods (7), and buffer springs (10) are connected between the half plates (8) and the steel plate (3);
the buffer barrier strip (6) is flexible and comprises two carbon fiber nets (11), two sponge strips (12) and a plurality of sponge particles (13); two carbon fiber nets (11) and two sponge strips (12) are alternately connected to form a hollow pipe body; a plurality of sponge grains (13) are arranged in the tube body at intervals longitudinally; after the buffer barrier strips (6) absorb water, the vertical downward pressure on the steel plate (3) is increased.
2. The flood prevention device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the flood prevention unit further comprises net bags (9) arranged at the abutting positions of the two half plates (8), and two ends of each net bag (9) are connected with the two half plates (8) respectively.
3. The flood prevention device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the buffer stop strips (6) are arranged in a staggered mode at intervals.
4. The flood prevention device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the heights of the buffer stop strips (6) are gradually increased along the upward inclined direction of the steel plate (3).
5. The flood prevention device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the inclined sections are at least two, and the horizontal section is located among the inclined sections.
6. The flood prevention device according to claim 1, characterized in that: and the adjacent flood prevention units are connected through connecting pieces in a threaded manner.
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