CE6T3
CE6T3
CE6T3
SIXTH SEMESTER
Learning outcomes:
At the end of the course, the student will have:
An understanding of water resource development practices
Knowledge on the various components of different types of dams and diversion
works and their design principles.
Knowledge of canal regulation works
UNIT-I
DIVERSION HEAD WORKS:
Types of Diversion head works, weirs and barrages, layout of diversion head works,
components. Causes and failure of hydraulic structures on permeable foundations,
Bligh’s creep theory, Khosla’s theory, determination of uplift pressure, impervious floors
using Bligh’s and Khosla’s theory, exit gradient, functions of U/s and d/s sheet piles.
UNIT-II
RESERVOIR PLANNING:
Investigations, site selection, zones of storage, yield and storage capacity of reservoir,
reservoir sedimentation.
DAMS:
Types of dams, selection of type of dam, selection of site for dam.
UNIT-III
GRAVITY DAMS:
Forces acting on a gravity dam, causes of failure of a gravity dam, elementary profile and
practical profile of a gravity dam, limiting height of a gravity dam, stability analysis,
drainage galleries, grouting.
UNIT-IV
EARTH DAMS:
Types of Earth dams, causes of failure, criteria for safe design, seepage, measures for
control of seepage – filters, stability analysis – stability of downstream slope during
steady seepage and upstream slope during sudden drawdown conditions.
UNIT-V
SPILLWAYS:
Types of spillways, design principles of Ogee spillways, types of spillway gates. Energy
dissipation below spillways – stilling basin and its appurtenances.
UNIT-VI
CANAL FALLS:
Types of falls and their location, design principles of Sarda type fall, trapezoidal notch fall
and straight glacis fall.
UNIT-VII
CANAL REGULATORS:
Head and cross regulators, design principles. Canal outlets, types of canal modules,
proportionality, sensitivity and flexibility.
UNIT-VIII
CROSS DRAINAGE WORKS:
Types, selection, design principles of aqueduct, siphon aqueduct and super passage.
Learning resources
Text books:
1. Irrigation engineering and hydraulic structures, (23rdedition) by Garg S.K., Khanna
Publishers, 2010.
2. Irrigation and water power engineering. (16th edition) by Punmia B.C., Laxmi
Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2010.
3. Irrigation engineering by Arora K.R., Delhi standards publication, 2009.
4. Irrigation Engineering, (3rd edition) by Sharma R.K. and Sharma T.K., S.Chand
Publishers, 2010.
Reference books:
1. Irrigation and water resources engineering by Asawa G.L., New Age International
Publishers, 2010.
2. Theory and Design of Hydraulic structures by Varshney, Gupta and Gupta, New
Chand and Bros, 1982.
3. Water resources engineering, (2nd edition) by Satyanarayana Murthy Challa, New Age
International Publisher, 2010.