Flood Control and Drainage Engineering

ISBN-13: 9781138026278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 400 str.

S. N. Ghosh

Opis

Primarily written as course material on flood control and drainage engineering for advanced students of civil engineering, this new fourth edition is again thoroughly revised. It accommodates recent developments in remote sensing, information technology and GIS technology. New added material deals with flood management due to Tsunami waves, flooding due to dam failure and breaking of embankments, application of dredging technologies, problems of flood forecasting, flood plain prioritisation and flood hazard zoning, and engineering measures for flood control.

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Contents
1. FLOOD PROBLEMS
2. ESTIMATION OF DESIGN FLOOD
3. FLOOD ROUTING THROUGH RESERVOIRS AND CHANNELS
4. DESIGN OF SPILLWAYS
5. FLOOD MITIGATION THROUGH PLANNING OF RESERVOIR CAPACITIES AND OPERATlON OF RESERVOIRS
6. FLOOD MITIGATION THROUGH RIVER PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT WORKS
7. FLOOD FORECASTING, WARNING AND FLOOD FIGHTING
8. ECONOMICS OF FLOOD CONTROL, PROJECT
9. DESIGN OF SUBSURFACE DRAINAGE SYSTEM
10. DESIGN OF SURFACE DRAINAGE SYSTEM
11. WATER-LOGGING AND SALINITY
12. APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY FOR FLOOD CONTROL
13. FLOOD PLAIN DELINEATION AND FLOOD HAZARD ASSESSMENT
14. FLOOD DAMAGE MANAGEMENT—Tsunamis and Storm Surges
15. FLOODING DUE TO COLLAPSE OF DAMS—Breaching of Flood Levees and Urban Coastal Areas
INDEX

O autorze

The author, presently retired, served as professor and head of the Civil Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He also served the Calcutta Port Trust as Chief Hydraulic Engineer on deputation from IIT. Professor Ghosh is a member of several learned societies and recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship for Post Doctoral Research at Imperial College, London, UK