Overview
Significant inclusions in the book are a chapter on management (including operation, maintenance, and evaluation) of canal irrigation in India, detailed environmental aspects for water resource projects, a note on interlinking of rivers in India, and design problems of hydraulic structures such as guide bunds, settling basins, etc. The first chapter of the book introduces irrigation and deals with the need, development and environmental aspects of irrigation in India. The second chapter on hydrology deals with different aspects of surface water resource. Soil-water relationships have been dealt with in Chapter 3. Aspects related to ground water resource have been discussed in Chapter 4. Canal irrigation and its management aspects form the subject matter of Chapters 5 and 6. Behaviour of alluvial channels and design of stable channels have been included in Chapters 7 and 8, respectively. Concepts of surface and subsurface flows, as applicable to hydraulic structures, have been introduced in Chapter 9. Different types of canal structures have been discussed in Chapters 10, 11, and 13. Chapter 12 has been devoted to rivers and river training methods. After introducing planning aspects of water resource projects in Chapter 14, embankment dams, gravity dams and spillways have been dealt with, respectively, in Chapters 15, 16 and 17. The students would find solved examples (including design problems) in the text, and unsolved exercises and the list of references given at the end of each chapter useful.
Full Product Details
Author: G.L. Asawa
Publisher: New Age International Pvt Ltd Publishers
Imprint: New Age International Pvt Ltd Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 20.00cm
, Height: 5.00cm
, Length: 25.00cm
ISBN: 9788122416732
ISBN 10: 812241673
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 01 December 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Dr. G.L. Asawa is presently working as Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Roorkee where he has been engaged (since 1971) in teaching, research and consultancy activities in the fields related to hydraulics and fluid mechanics. Dr. Asawa has published about 50 research papers in various journals and conference proceedings besides authoring a textbook Irrigation Engineering and a Laboratory Manual Experimental Fluid Mechanics both for degree courses. Dr. Asawa has life fellowships of the Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Association of Hydrologists, and Indian Water Resources Society, and life membership of the Indian Society for Wind Engineering. He is also a member of Notches, Weirs and Flumes Sub-Committee and Fluid flow measurement Sectional Committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards.
