Canal Design and Construction

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Design of canals. 2. Practical aspects of design of canals. 3. Design of Mehboob and Best Trapezoidal canals. 4. Design of wide channels. 5. Design of other canal sections. 6. Experiences from some canals. 7. Sediment transport and canal design theories. 7B. Review of Indira Gandhi Main Canal (IGMC). 8. Embankment and other details. 9. Channels of most suitable and economical cross-section. Important and publications in India.

This book is an outcome of a large experience of many engineers on various different site conditions. Many actual cases have been sited. It deals with all the practical aspects of an economic section for various discharges, topographic and soil conditions.

The canal design involves deep knowledge of following disciplines. Hydraulics of flow, mechanics and bed erosion and sediment transport, Geotechnical engineering: soil and rock mechanics, stability of inner and outer slopes, including that of foundation, mechanics of ground water flow, seepage and drainage characteristics of soil and ground, tunneling structural engineering and construction techniques.

There are following parameters of a channel design: 1. Discharge Q. 2. Rugosity coefficient N. 3. Longitudinal slope, S. 4. Side slope Z (Horizontal : 1 Vertical). 5. Bed width, B. 6. Depth, D or B/D ratio, X and Velocity, V.

Lastly this volume is very friendly to field engineers and helps to avoid mistakes. It is written in such a way that the field engineers can use the relevant part directly. The book is also very useful to engineering students to enable them to clearly understand the hydraulics and economics of canal sections, and project works. It incorporates the work of many researchers/scholars on the subject. It also highlights future studies required.