Abstract: The failure of critical components at navigation locks can cause unscheduled outages that impose high costs on shippers. Presently, the USACE requires that each hydraulic steel structure be inspected at least once every ...

Abstract: The United States Army Corps of Engineers assumes that horizontally framed miter gates thrust into lock chamber walls under hydraulic head. However, in many gates the bottom hinge, a fixed pintle, interrupts this thrusting ...

Abstract: Miter gates are structures that act as both the damming surface and doorway of lock chambers and are commonly found on American rivers. Miter gates are assumed to have very little torsional stiffness, and their geometry ...