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a) The maximum water level is 120 meters above the base, with a bottom width of 30 meters and a width of 150 meters at the maximum water level in a trapezoidal valley. Calculate the arch thickness of a concrete arch dam located 50 meters below the surface and determine the arch reactions on the slopes for a unit body height.
(The central angle of the arch will be taken as 2.33 radians, _concrete=420 t/m^2, and _water=1 t/m^3.)
b) Calculate the total volume of the concrete arch dam body.
c) The tailwater of a hydroelectric power plant is located 180 m below the maximum water level. The average flow rate is 320x10 m^3/year, and the total plant efficiency is 0.85. Given that the friction factor in the penstock is 0.02, the total local losses are 2.5, the penstock length is 600 m, and the maximum flow rate can be 2.0 times the average flow rate, calculate the penstock diameter, wall thickness, average power, maximum power, and load factor.
(k=2, _max=1300 kgf/cm^2, E=2.1x10 kgf/cm^2)

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