Name: CODE OF PRACTICE FOR THE DESIGN OF OPEN WATERCOURSES AND ANCILLARY STRUCTURES
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CODE OF PRACTICE FOR THE DESIGN OF OPEN WATERCOURSES AND ANCILLARY STRUCTURES

Published by H. Veenman & Zonen Ltd.. 1st. 1964

Very good condition. International Institute for Land Reclamation adn Improvement Bulletin 7. Drawn up by a working party on open watercourses constituted by the Royal Netherlands Institute of Engineers and the Royal Netherlands Society of Agricultural Science. Card wraps. B/w diagrams (some fold-out).

Name in ink to first few pages and to the fold-out diagrams. Covers a little browned with name in ink to front cover and creases to lower corners. Top of spine knocked.

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SECTION 1 Introduction
SECTION 2 General Design of Watercourses
2.1. Drawing up plans and calculations
2.2. Water level in the channels
2.3. Hydraulic gradient
2.4. Velocity of flow
2.5. Curves in channels
SECTION 3 Cross-section of Watercourses
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Minimum cross-section
3.2.1. Arable land
3.2.2. Grassland
3.3. Shape of the cross-section. Inclination of the side-slopes
SECTION 4 Calculation of the Cross-section, the hydraulic gradient or the discharge
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Formulae to be used
4.3. Lined and non-vegetated channels
4.3.1. Formulae to be used
4.3.2. Bed roughness
4.3.3. Thickness of the boundary layer
4.4. Vegetated channels
4.4.1. Introduction
4.4.2. Formulae to be used
4.4.3. Bed-roughness
4.4.4. Rules for the bed-roughness of vegetated channels
4.5. Calculations for non-vegetated channels
4.6. Calculations for vegetated channels
4.7. Checks necessary
SECTION 5 Structures: Culverts and Bridges
5.1. Influence on the watercourse
5.2. Dimensions
5.3. Shapes of the cross-sections. Minimum sizes
5.4. Calculation of culverts and bridges
SECTION 6 Structures: Weirs
Note 1 Drawing up a plan for the construction or improvement of watercourses
Note 2 The choice of hydraulic gradient
Note 3 Theoretical basis
Note 4 Minimum cross-sections of ditches and small watercourses
Note 5 Measurements for determining the coefficient of bed-roughness
Note 6 The influence of the choice of the coefficient of bed-roughness on the design and the water levels subsequently occurring
Note 7 Calculation for construction of the backwater curve for non-uniform flow