CODE OF PRACTICE FOR THE DESIGN OF OPEN WATERCOURSES AND ANCILLARY STRUCTURES
Published by H. Veenman & Zonen Ltd.
in 1964
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- INDUSTRY
- ENGINEERING
- WATER
CODE OF PRACTICE FOR THE DESIGN OF OPEN WATERCOURSES AND ANCILLARY STRUCTURES
Stock no. 681540
1st.
1964.
Softcover.
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.
Front cover
Contents
- 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