Lecture Notes Week 12
Lecture Notes Week 12
Presented By :
Dr Alvin Lal
Discussion for CV322!!
Dams
Weirs
Flumes
Spillways
Hydraulic gates
Drainage
DAMS
A dam is a hydralic structure
constructed across a river or a
natural stream to store water on its
up stream side.
It is an imprevious or fairly
impervious barrier put across a
river or a natural stream to create
a reservoir for impounding water.
Also to diverse a water from river,
or to retain debris flowing in the
river alongwith water.
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Types of Dams
Gravity dam--------Storage dam
Earth dam----------Storage dam
Rockfill dam-------Storage dam
Weir dam---------- Diversion dam
Barrage------------ Diversion dam
Arch dam---------- Storage dam
Buttress dam-------Storage dam
Gravity Dam
A gravity dam is solid masonary or concrete
structure with its cross section approximately
triangular in hape.
It's required little maintance and is most commonly
used.
constructed either of masonary or concrete.
Al the forces of dam including its self weight are
transmitted to the foundation.
Either straight or curved in plan.
Various forces acting on gravity dam are water
pressure, weight of dam, uplifft pressure,
earthquake forces, silt pressure, wave pressure, ice
pressure and wind pressure.
The hightest dams in the world are of gravity type.
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Gravity dam
Rockfill Dam
A rockfill dam is an embankment
which uses variable sizes of
quarried stones(rocks) to provide
stabililty.
An impervious membrance to
provide water tightness.
With the help of transportation
equipments, it is possible to build
fairly high rock-fill dams.
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Rockfill Dam
Arch Dam
A dam which is constructed in the form
of an arch supported on abutments is
called the arch dam.
It's having a curved shape plan.
So it can stored more amount of water.
It's having water pressure horizontally to
the abutments by arch action.
And water pressure is transferred to the
foundation by cantilever action.
The arch dam may be constructed in
masonary or concrete.
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Arch Dam
Buttress Dam
A butrress dam consists of a number of
buttresses or piers dividing the space to be
dammed into a number of spans.
To stored the water between these buttresses,
panels are constructed of horizontal arches or
flat slabs.
when the panels consit of arches,it is considered
as multiple type of buttress dam.
If the panels consist of flat slab, it is known as
deck type buttress dam.
The inclination of the deck slab is 30° -45°.
Road can be constructed on the top of the dam.
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Buttress Dam
Barrage
A bareage is a type of low-head,
diversion dam which consists of a
number of large gates that can be
opened or closed to control the amount
of water..
It is useful for irrigation and other
system.
A barrage is built for diverting water,
and raise the water level only a few feet.
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Weirs
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