Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulic Structures

The book “Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulic Structures” - abridged edition has been designed to give existing state of knowledge in the field of Hydrology Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulic Structures in brief manner so that students can use it as theirown reference book. Compared to other voluminous books available in this subject the author has tried to cover the subject-matter in an abridged manner in approximately 300 pages. Besides the full explanation to the theoretical aspects with illustrative figuresit gives number of solved numerical examples from University question papers.Problems for practice are also given with answers in the exercises at the end of each chapter.Contents1. Introduction 2. Water Requirement of Crops 3. Hydrology 4. Ground Water 5. Reservoir Planning 6. Design of Gravity Dams 7. Spillways and Gates 8. Arch and Buttress Dams 9. Earth Dams 10. Canal Head Works 11. Distribution System 12. Canal Structures 13. Sediment Transport in Alluvial Canals 14. River Training Works and Flood Control 15. River Flow Measurement References Subject Index About the AuthorDr. S.K. Ukarande presently is Dean Faculty of Technology and Chairman Board of Studies in Civil Engineering at University of Mumbai and Principal of Yadavrao Tasgaonkar College of Engineering and Management. He is graduated from College of Engineering Pune and done M. Tech. and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of TechnologyBombay. He has 27 years of teaching experience and was Principal atEngineering College for 13 years at Mumbai University and 1 year atPune University affiliated colleges. He has published 22 Papers in National and International journals and conferences. He has attended various seminars and conferences and travelled abroad to present papers.He has 4 books to his credit: 1. Engineering Mechanics 2. Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics 3. Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulic Structures and 4. Numerical Modeling of Coastal Aquifers. He has guided 17 candidates at M.E. level.He is a member of various professional bodies such as MISTE MIE MIAH and MISHand Fellow of ICCEI India and member of various bodies at University level viz.Management Council Senate Academic Council etc. His Ph. D. Thesis is Published in the form of book (monogram) entitled “Numerical Modeling of Coastal Aquifers”.