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CEL 3043 Syllabus

The document outlines the course CEL 3043 Water Resource Engineering, detailing prerequisites, course outcomes, and content structure. Students will learn about water resources, engineering hydrology, irrigation engineering, reservoir planning, and diversion head works. It also includes suggested textbooks and a list of practical experiments related to the course.

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CEL 3043 Syllabus

The document outlines the course CEL 3043 Water Resource Engineering, detailing prerequisites, course outcomes, and content structure. Students will learn about water resources, engineering hydrology, irrigation engineering, reservoir planning, and diversion head works. It also includes suggested textbooks and a list of practical experiments related to the course.

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CEL 3043 Water Resource Engineering Pre Requisites Nil

Theory Practical
L T P C MI-01 MI-02 MA ASGN INT EXT TOTAL
3 0 2 4 20 20 50 10 50 50 200

COURSE OUTCOMES
On completion of the course students will be able to:
1. The importance of water and various water resources of India and the world.
2. Understand various Interstate river disputes.
3. Understand various steps involved in water resource planning of engineering projects.
4. Formulation and solving of Linear Programming Problems using Graphical and Simplex
methods

COURSE CONTENTS
Unit-I: Introduction ( 7 Contact Periods)
Importance of water & water resource engineering, surface & ground water resources, water
Resources of World and India.
Unit-II: Engineering Hydrology (11 Contact Periods)
Necessity for Conservation and Development of Country's Water Resources. Different uses of
Water Resources. Engineering Hydrology: Definition and its importance, Hydrological Cycle,
Hydrologic equation, Precipitation: Forms, Types, Factors affecting, Measurement, Rain gauge
Network, Estimation of Missing data, Consistency of data, Mean Areal Precipitation, Brief
introduction of Intensity-duration Frequency relationship and Artificial rain

Unit-III: Irrigation Engineering (10 Contact Periods)


Irrigation Engineering: Necessity and advantages of irrigation, suitability of soils for different
crops, standards for irrigation water. Minor Irrigation Works: Necessity and general layout of
Bandhara and percolation Tank, Crop Water Requirements: Principal Indian crop seasons and
water requirements for different crops, Duty and Delta, Consumptive use of water and its
estimation, Irrigation efficiency.
Unit-IV: Reservoir Planning and Dams (10 Contact Periods)
Reservoir Planning: Investigation, selection of site, control levels, Reservoir Sedimmentation,
Reservoir Capacity, Calculation of life Reservoir. Dams: Different types and their suitability-
factors governing the selection of types of dam for project Earth Dams: Types of dams, causes of
failure seepage and drainage arrangement, phreatic line, stability analysis, seepage control
measures, Gravity Dams: Types of dams forces acting, modes of failure; principles of design of
straight gravity dams, Elementary and practical profile, Galleries, Earthquake and its effect on
dams.
Unit-V: Diversion Head Works and spillways (7 Contact Periods)
Diversion Head Works :- Selection of site and layout, components of diversion head works, design
of weirs on permeable foundation, construction details of Kolhapur type weirs. Spillways: Types
of spillway, spillway capacity, Flood routing through spillways, types of crest gates

SUGGESTED BOOKS
1) Water Resource Engineering by Linsley.
2) Economics of Water Resource Planning by James & Lee.
3) A Text Book of Hydrology & Water Resources by Sharma, R.K.
4) Water Resource Project Planning by Kuiper.
5) Punmia : Irrigation & Water Power Engg.
6) Garg S.K. : Irrigation & Water Power Engg

List of experiments:
1. Flow measurement through open channel by notches
2. Cross section, plan, L-section of Earth dam showing all components; details of drainage of
downstream casing.
3. Design and Drawing of elementary and practical profile of gravity dam
4. Design and drawing of diversion weir on permeable foundation
5. Computer Aided design of unlined and lined canal
5. Drawing of any Four canal structure (No design)
7. Field visit

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