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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.

Stock no. 681540

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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

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