Abstract: La Sarcelle is part of the Eastmain-1-A/La Sarcelle/Rupert project and it is the first bulb units power plant of Hydro-Québec commissioning in 2013. The power plant is made of 3 large bulb units of 50 MW with a large runner diameter of 7 meters. The owner and the lead consultant had to deal with a new kind of plant introducing strong technical challenges. This implies for the consultant a large R&D component to complete the work, not only to control the bulb plant knowledge, but also to apply this knowledge to a Nordic climate. This paper presents an overview of the structural analysis process: the team work, the finite element models involved for global and local analysis, the loads applied to the critical concrete parts and the tools available in post-processing to understand the structural behaviour of complex structures.
Keywords: Bulb power plant, Finite element models, Graphical post-processing
Title: NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LA SARCELLE POWER PLANT: A CASE STUDY
Author: Normand Thibeault (Senior Engineer, AECOM, Montreal, Canada) and
Ricardo Pena-Rodriguez (Senior Engineer, Hydro-Québec, Montreal, Canada)
International Journal Of Civil And Structural Engineering Research (IJCSER)
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