EP1413680B1 - Elément modulaire pour des barrières de préventation des inondations - Google Patents

Elément modulaire pour des barrières de préventation des inondations Download PDF

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EP1413680B1
EP1413680B1 EP03022384A EP03022384A EP1413680B1 EP 1413680 B1 EP1413680 B1 EP 1413680B1 EP 03022384 A EP03022384 A EP 03022384A EP 03022384 A EP03022384 A EP 03022384A EP 1413680 B1 EP1413680 B1 EP 1413680B1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B3/00—Engineering works in connection with control or use of streams, rivers, coasts, or other marine sites; Sealings or joints for engineering works in general
    • E02B3/04—Structures or apparatus for, or methods of, protecting banks, coasts, or harbours
    • E02B3/10—Dams; Dykes; Sluice ways or other structures for dykes, dams, or the like
    • E02B3/106—Temporary dykes
    • E02B3/108—Temporary dykes with a filling, e.g. filled by water or sand
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B15/00—Cleaning or keeping clear the surface of open water; Apparatus therefor
    • E02B15/04—Devices for cleaning or keeping clear the surface of open water from oil or like floating materials by separating or removing these materials
    • E02B15/08—Devices for reducing the polluted area with or without additional devices for removing the material
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  • the present invention refers to a modular element for flood prevention barriers.
  • the present invention refers to a modular element for flood prevention barriers being quickly and easily installed.
  • the present means available to protect lands against floods are not so many and they are difficult and long to install and, moreover, they require great efforts.
  • the known means to protect lands against floods are mainly constituted by earth or stone cofferdams, by sandbags, or by inflatable means have many drawbacks, they are too weak, they do not have the required solidity to face up to the violence of waters and they are too long and require too much effort for the technicians and/or the volunteers to be prepared and installed.
  • the earth or stone cofferdams can be successfully adopted for land reclamations, but they cannot be certainly used for actions aimed at facing unforeseen floods; in the same way as the protections with inflatable means can be used only in case of moderate floods when the floodwater pressure is relatively low.
  • Object of the present invention is to remove the above-mentioned drawbacks.
  • the present invention allows obtaining this and other purposes resulting from the following description when modular elements to build flood prevention barriers being substantially made of containers that can be filled up with water or other fluid, that are fixed in length and overlapped are used.
  • Document US 5.511.902-A also discloses a modular element according to the preamble of independent claim 1. This modular element can be filled with fluid and is designed to be stacked.
  • the containers according to the present invention are preferably made of light and inexpensive materials such as polyethylene or other plastic materials in general.
  • object of the present invention is a modular element for flood prevention barriers according to claim 1 and comprising a container that can be filled up with water or other fluid, provided with at least one upper filler with seal plug and with at least a lower side exhaust stack with seal plug, wherein two opposite horizontal ends, respectively comprise equal and complementary hemispherical projection and recess that can be jointly and sealingly coupled with equal recesses and projections of other identical modular elements; said container having its upper side and lower side comprised between said ends and respectively provided with complementary grooves and profiles that can be jointly and sealingly coupled with equal profiles and grooves of other identical modular elements.
  • the barriers under way can be reinforced and/or erected with correspondent jointly linked barriers placed side by side and/or overlapped in order to support pressure increases of the flowing waters according to the needs; in addition to the quick installation without infrastructures, the reduced unit weight and their modular structures allow an easy movement also during removals, transfers to other locations, rebuilding of other barriers and piling up in warehouses.
  • the modular element for flood prevention barriers of the present invention comprises a container 1 which, in its opposite side ends, is respectively provided with sealing complementary and equal tongue hemispherical projection 2 and a groove hemispherical recess 3 that can be coupled with identical recesses 3 and projections 2 of other identical modular elements.
  • the upper surface 4 and the lower surface 5 comprised between said ends 2 and 3 are equipped with complementary grooves 6 and profiles 7 that can be sealingly coupled with equal profiles 7 and grooves 6 provided with other identical modular elements on their upper surface 4 and lower surface 5.
  • Grooves 6 and/or profiles 7 can be chamfered to allow the positioning of the seals also with misaligned elements.
  • the lower part of the same hemispherical ends 2 and 3 is provided with chamfers 20, 20' that form a continuous longitudinal recess 17 if they are tangentially aligned with the correspondent lower side 5 and internal edges of the profiles 7.
  • the modular containers 1 of the present invention form an internal chamber 11 provided at least with one upper filler equipped with sealing plug 8 and of at least one side lower exhaust stack equipped with seal plug 9.
  • the side exhaust stacks can be two.
  • Said containers 1 can be made of any material, preferably light and resistant inexpensive materials such as polyethylene or other plastic material in general. This condition allows an easy movement for storage, installation of barriers 10 and/or their removal.
  • the barriers 10 are built by placing the modular containers 1 in the interested areas without any foundation works progressively coupling the modular containers by reciprocally fixing their hemispherical projections/recesses 2/3 and their grooves/profiles 6/7 until lateral and/or overlapped sequential rows are obtained.
  • In the internal chamber 11 of the modular containers 1 is then preferably and more rapidly introduced water or other fluid through said upper fillers with seal plug 8.
  • the filling can be carried out by means of immersion pumps taking the water directly from the one to be controlled, tank trucks, hydrants or taps of the usual distribution networks.
  • hemispherical projections/recesses 2/3, grooves/profiles 6/7 By the sequential and joint coupling of said hemispherical projections/recesses 2/3, grooves/profiles 6/7, a plurality of modular containers, barriers 10 to build artificial banks for protection, land reclamation, closing of leakages and the like can be obtained.
  • Said hemispherical projections 2 and recesses 3 can be chamfered in order to be perfectly fixed even in case of partial misalignment of the modular elements due to the unevenness of the ground they are placed upon and assure the required sealing of the barriers.
  • the protection barriers can be reinforced by laterally approaching and/or jointly overlapping in an aligned way or in a pyramidal way other rows of modular containers on the dry side.
  • the weight of the filled-up upper modular containers strengthens the base making it more effective against the lateral force of the waters to be controlled.
  • the barriers can be removed after having exhausted the content of all modular containers through the relevant lower side exhaust stacks with seal plug 9.
  • the emptied modular containers 1 can be easily and quickly removed without effort and they can be stacked, stored and kept for future interventions.
  • modular containers 1, filled up and stacked can be fastened between them by means of belts 12 with ratchet 13.
  • the rear ends 14 of said belts can be embedded into modular containers 1 during their moulding in correspondence with side half grooves 15; as an alternative, the belts can be whole and ring-fastened into slots 16 obtained into the same grooves.
  • the function of grooves 15 is to contain the tensioned belts until they are as much as possible close to the modular containers 1 without laterally projecting from them in order to laterally approach other containers if necessary.
  • the same slots 16 can be used to apply ropes, binders and/or clamps that can carry out the same function as said belts.
  • a continuous sheath 18 made of elastic material such as natural or synthetic rubber, plastic material or the like is preferably applied for a better sealing and adhesion of the same barriers on any kind of ground, both a smooth ground and a coarse ground with bulges, a straight one or an undulating one, made of stones, leaf mould, tar and so on.
  • the same type of sheath 18 can be also placed in the lower longitudinal recesses 17' that form between the profiles 7 of the rows of the elements that are laterally approached.
  • an extra sheath can be also placed between the stacked modular containers, the recesses 17 and/or 17', if a special sealing of the artificial banks built according to the present invention is required.

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  1. Elément modulaire pour barrages de prévention des inondations, comprenant un caisson (1) comportant, en position installée, au moins un élément de remplissage supérieur muni d'un bouchon obturateur (8) et au moins un conduit d'évacuation latéral inférieur muni d'un bouchon obturateur (9), caractérisé en ce que deux extrémités opposées horizontalement du caisson (1) comprennent respectivement une protubérance hémisphérique (2) et une cavité hémisphérique (3) identiques et complémentaires aptes à être assemblées de manière jointive et étanche avec des cavités (3) et des protubérances (2) identiques d'autres éléments modulaires identiques, ledit caisson (1) ayant, en position installée, son côté supérieur (4) et son côté inférieur (5) situés entre lesdites deux extrémités opposées horizontalement (2, 3), lesdits côtés supérieur (4) et inférieur (5) étant respectivement pourvus de rainures (6) et de projections (7) complémentaires aptes à être assemblées de manière jointive et étanche avec des projections (7) et des rainures (6) identiques d'autres éléments modulaires identiques.
  2. Elément modulaire selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les extrémités hémisphériques (2) et (3) comportent, dans leur partie inférieure, des biseaux (20), (20') qui sont alignés tangentiellement avec le côté inférieur (5) correspondant et avec les bords intérieurs respectifs desdites projections (7), ledit élément étant assemblé de manière jointive avec d'autres éléments modulaires et complémentaires pour former un creux longitudinal continu (17) qui définit un logement pour une gaine (18) formée d'une matière élastique, telle qu'un caoutchouc naturel ou synthétique, une matière plastique ou une matière similaire, gaine qui est appliquée à chaque niveau de creux (17) formé par les éléments modulaires assemblés et/ou empilés, y compris un creux (17') formé entre les projections (7) des rangées d'éléments placés sur le sol.
  3. Elément modulaire selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce qu'il est fabriqué à l'aide de matières légères, bon marché et résistantes, telles que du polyéthylène ou d'autres matières plastiques en général.
  4. Elément modulaire selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend une chambre intérieure (11) dans laquelle de l'eau, ou un autre fluide, peut être introduite par l'intermédiaire dudit élément de remplissage supérieur (8) et évacuée par l'intermédiaire dudit conduit d'évacuation latéral inférieur (9).
  5. Elément modulaire pour barrages de prévention des inondations selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'en service, pour former les barrages (10), les protubérances hémisphériques (2), les cavités hémisphériques (3), les rainures (6) et les projections (7) s'assemblent de manière jointive et étanche et/ou se chevauchent successivement avec d'autres cavités hémisphériques (3), protubérances hémisphériques (2), rainures (6) et projections (7) complémentaires d'éléments modulaires identiques.
  6. Elément modulaire pour barrages de prévention des inondations selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ses protubérances hémisphériques (2) et ses cavités hémisphériques (3) peuvent être fixées de manière étanche en alignement et/ou en désalignement partiel avec les cavités hémisphériques (3) et les protubérances hémisphériques (2) d'éléments modulaires identiques.
  7. Elément nodulaire pour barrages de prévention des inondations selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ses jonctions avec d'autres éléments modulaires identiques peuvent être déplacées verticalement et horizontalement et également orientées autour de l'axe de la protubérance ou de la cavité hémisphérique.
  8. Elément modulaire pour barrages de prévention des inondations selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il peut être assemblé de manière jointive et étanche avec plusieurs éléments identiques remplis d'eau ou de différents fluides, lesdits éléments étant, en service, combinés en une seule rangée ou en plusieurs rangées parallèles alignées, en une configuration pyramidale ou en compositions combinées pouvant être mises en oeuvre à volonté pour former des barrages.
  9. Elément modulaire pour barrages de prévention des inondations selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que, en association avec sa jonction réciproque pour former un barrage avec des éléments identiques, l'élément modulaire comprend des courroies (12) munies d'un organe de blocage (13), les extrémités arrière (14) des courroies étant encastrées dans les caissons (1) au cours du moulage de ceux-ci en correspondance avec des demi-rainures latérales (15).
  10. Elément modulaire pour barrages de prévention des inondations selon les revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce que, en association avec sa jonction réciproque pour former un barrage avec des éléments identiques, l'élément modulaire comprend des courroies complètes (12) aptes à être fixées par un collier dans des fentes (16) formées dans les caissons (1) en correspondance avec des demi-rainures latérales (15).
  11. Elément modulaire pour barrages de prévention des inondations selon les revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce que, en association avec sa jonction réciproque pour former un barrage avec des éléments identiques, l'élément modulaire comprend des cordes, des liens et/ou des organes de serrage destinés à relier les éléments identiques.
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