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There are number of dewatering options available for excavations to facilitate construction activities. The choice of best and suitable de...

Surface drainage system is most important in Highway engineering. A pavement without proper drainage facilities will not serve for long tim...

An illustration explaining key facts about lock gates By linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the Panama Canal revolutionized glo...

This manual describes the development and use of response spectra for the seismic analysis of concrete hydraulic structures. The manual ...

Figure 1: Cargo ships crossing the great Panama Canal The end of the 19th century was a time of visionaries who conceived of projects t...

The large prefabricated box or cylindrical type structures that can be sunk through soft ground or water and then filled with concrete thu...

The time was the early 1930s, the president was Herbert Hoover, and the situation in the United States looked bleak. The stock market had...

Water is the greatest resource of humanity. It not only helps in survival but also helps in making life comfortable and luxurious. Beside...

This text is loosely based on a course on ‘Hydraulic Structures’ which evolved over the years in the Department of Civil Engineering at t...

A cofferdam is defined as a temporary structure which is constructed so as to remove water from an area and make it possible to carry on the...

The flow in which flow parameters such as velocity, pressure and density of a fluid flow are dependent upon time is called unsteady flow. I...