Summary:

In 2014 an innovative project was started, in partnership with Energias De Portugal (EDP), with the aim of recording the pressures and monitoring the dissipation basin of the Foz Tua Hydroelectric Power Station (AHFT), divided into two distinct phases. The first phase corresponded to the implementation and validation of the measurement and recording system, which ended successfully in early 2019 with about two years of continuous data acquisition. The second phase, in close cooperation with the AHFT explorer, focuses on monitoring the pressures exerted in the impact basin and on feedback of the infrastructure safety conditions to the relevant entities.

Parallel to the second phase of SOPBDAHFT, the physical model of the same hydroelectric exploitation will replicate the measurement conditions in prototype, comparing and calibrating the model with actual flood data.

The existence of the pressure measurement system replicated in prototype and physical model will allow, in the short term, flood modeling to predict structural impacts, and in the medium term, calibration of numerical models.