Computer Applications

Objectives

1.      To use StaadPro structural design software   to analyze and design structural systems

2.      To use MS Excel to solve problems like design of beams

3.      To understand the fundamentals and application of Python, MS Project and other emerging Civil Engineering application software.

Content

STAAD‐PRO:‐ Toolboxes, commands, modeling for truss, plane and space frames, loadings, Design, Pre and Post processing of data, Programming with Python: Application to Engineering problems, MS Project Fundamentals, MathCAD, Other new and emerging Civil Engineering application software



Hydraulic Engineering

Credit Hours: 3

Course Objectives

At the end of the course student will be able to:

  • Design and select pumps (single or multiple) and pipes for different hydraulic
  • applications
  • Analyze flow in closed pipes and selection pipes sizes
  • Identify and use modern computer software to analyze and design different water and wastewater systems

Course Content

Design of hydraulic structures (especially drainage structures): design of dams, spillway design, design of erodible channels, introduction to sediment transport, pipe dimensioning, pumps and pumping systems, pipes in series and parallel, flow analysis of pipes, characteristic curves and pump selection, storage tanks, appurtenant works, principles for determining the surface profiles, pipelines with pumps and turbines, Hardy-cross method, water hammer, hydrodynamic machines, specific speed, characteristics curves, pump and pipeline systems, pump selection, NPSH and cavitation.

Open Channel Flows: Difference between open channel flow and pipe flow, geometrical parameters of a Channel, Chezy’s and Manning’s equations for uniform flow in open channel, Velocity distribution, most efficient channel section, compound channels. Hydraulic Jumps: Classical hydraulic jump, Evaluation of the jump elements in rectangular channels on horizontal and sloping beds.

Reading Materials

  • Modi, P.N and Seth, S.M. (2005). Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics. New Delhi: Standard Book House.
  • Bansal, R.K. (2005). Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines. New Delhi: Laxmi Publications.
  • Subramanya, K. (2002). Theory and Applications of Fluid Mechanics. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.

  • Novak, P., Moffat, A.I.B., Nalluri, C. and Narayanan, R. (2003). Hydraulic Structures (3rd Edition). New York: Taylor & Francis.