IRRIGATION ENGINEERING AND HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES

• Complete syllabi coverage of major Indian Universities, NIT's, IIT's, A.M.I.E and the like.
• Detailed designs of important hydraulic structures which are worked out with the help of illustrations.
• Objective type questions which are added at the end of each chapter followed by review questions.
• Illustration of the text with 600+ line diagrams, 200+ tables and solved problems.

• Irrigation and its Planning in India • Irrigation Soils and their Fertility • Principal Crops in India • Soil-Water-Plant Relationships • Irrigation Water - Its Application and Assessment • Sprinkler Irrigation • Micro-irrigation (Drip/Trickle etc.) • Ground Water (Open Wells) • Tubewell Irrigation • Canal Irrigation • Unlined Canals - Silt Theories • Unlined Canals - Their Planning and Design • Lined Canals and their Design • Lift Irrigation • Water logging • Drains • Land Reclamation • River Engineering • River Training Works • Theories of Seepage • Diversion Headworks • Design of Weir/Barrage and Canal Head Regulator • Canal Regulators • Canal Falls • Cross-drainage Works • Canal Outlets • Engineering Hydrology • Gravity Dams • Arch Dams • Buttress Dams • Earth and Rockfill Dams • Spillways • Energy Dissipators • Water Power Engineering • Irrigation Water Management