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Unit 1.
Regulation of works: Falls, Classification of falls, Design of falls, Distributory head regulator and cross-head regulator, Escape, bed bars.
Cross-Drainage Structure: Necessity of Cross-drainage structures, their types and selection, comparative merits and demerits, design of various types of cross-drainage structure-aqueducts, siphon aqueduct, super passage siphon, level crossing and other types.
Unit 2.
Diversion Head works: Design for surface and subsurface flows, Bligh’s and Khosla’s methods. Selection of site and layout, different parts of diversion head works, types of weirs and barrages, design of weirs on permeable foundation, silt excluders and different types of silt ejectors. Energy dissipation.
Unit 3.
Embankment Dams: Suitable sites, causes of failures, stability and seepage analysis, flownet, slope stability analysis, precautions of piping, principles of design of earth dams.
Gravity Dams: Force acting on a gravity dam, stability requirements, Instrumentation.
Unit 4.
Spillways: Spillway capacity, flood routing through spillways, different types of spillways and gates, energy dissipation below spillways. Hydro Power Plant: General features of hydroelectric schemes, elements of power house structure, selection of turbines, draft tube and setting of turbine, cavitations.
Unit 5.
Reservoirs: Evaluation of impact of water projects on river regimes and environment. Reservoir sedimentation and water shed management.
Optimization: Introduction to optimization techniques and system approach. Introduction to G.I.S. and Computer aided irrigation design.
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