Mod 1
Mod 1
Mod 1
STRUCTURES
Mohammed Shafeeque V
Asst Professor
Civil Department
EKC TC
QUESTION PAPER PATTERN (End semester
examination)
• Maximum Marks : 100 Exam Duration: 3 Hrs
• Part A -Module I & II : 2 questions out of 3
questions carrying 15 marks each
• Part B - Module III : One question out of 2 questions
carrying 50 marks ; with weightage for design as 25
marks and sketching of two views of design
specified in question : 25 marks
• Part C - Module IV & V : 2 questions out of 3
questions carrying 10 marks each.
Module 1
1.Storage headwork
2.Diversion headwork
Storage headwork
• A Storage headwork comprises the construction of a dam on
the river.
• It stores water during the period of excess supplies and
releases it when demand overtakes available supplies.
• These serves for multipurpose function like hydro- electric
power generation, flood control, fishery etc..
Diversion headwork
• A diversion headwork serves to divert the required
supply to canal from the river.
• Weir or barrage is a structure constructed across a
river for the purpose of raising water level in the
river so that it can be diverted into the offtaking
canals.
• Flow of water in the canal is controlled by canal head
regulator.
Objective of Diversion Head Works
• To rise the water level at the head of the canal.
• It regulates the supply of water into canals.
• It creates a small pond (not reservoir) on its
upstream and provides some pondage
• To control the entry of silt into the canal and to
control the deposition of silt at the head of the
canal
• To control the fluctuation of water level in the
river during different seasons
Selection of Site for Diversion Head
Works
• At the site, the river should be straight and narrow
• The river banks should be well defined.
• The valuable land should not be submerged when the weir or
barrage is constructed.
• The elevation of the site should be much higher than the area to
be irrigated.
• The canals taking off from the diversion head works should be
quite economical and should have a large commanded area.
• The site should be easily accessible by roads or railways.
• The materials of construction should be available in vicinity of the
site.
• Good foundation should be available at the site
• The site should not be far away from the command area of the
project, to avoid transmission loss.
• The overall cost of the project should be a minimum.
Components of a diversion headwork
Components
• Weir or barrage
• Divide wall
• Fish ladder
• Pocket or approach channel
• Under sluices or scouring sluices
• Silt excluder
• Canal head regulator
• River training works, such as marginal bunds,
guide banks
Weir and Barrage
• It is a barrier constructed across the river to raise the water
level on the upstream side of the obstruction in order to
feed the main canal.
• The ponding of water can be achieved either only by a
raised crest across the river or by a raised crest
supplemented by gates or shutters, working over the crest.
• A weir is a raised concrete crest wall constructed across the
river. It may be provided with small shutters (gates) on its
top
• A barrage has a low crest wall with high gates.
Divide wall
• A divide wall is a wall constructed parallel to the
direction of flow of river to separate the weir
section and the undersluices section to avoid
cross flows.
• The divide wall is a long wall constructed at right
angles in the weir or barrage, it may be
constructed with stone masonry or cement
concrete. On the upstream side, the wall is
extended just to cover the canal head regulator
and on the downstream side, it is extended up to
the launching apron.
The main functions of the divide walls:
• It separates the ‘under-sluices’ with lower crest
level from the ‘weir proper’ with higher crest level.
• It helps in providing a comparatively less turbulent
pocket near the canal head regulator, resulting in
deposition of silt in this pocket and, thus, to help in
the entry of silt-free water into the canal.
• It helps to keep cross-current, if any, away from the
weir.
• It serves as one of the side of the fish ladder
Fish ladder
• Due to construction of weir or barrage, the movement of gets
obstructed, and is detrimental to the fishes.
• A fish ladder is a passage provided adjacent to the divide wall on the weir
side for the fish to travel from the upstream to the downstream and vice
versa.
• In a fish ladder the head is gradually dissipated so as to provide smooth
flow at sufficiently low velocity. In the fish ladder, the baffles walls are
constructed in a zigzag manner so that the velocity of flow within the
ladder does not exceed 3 m/sec
Fish Ladder
Fish Ladder
Under sluices
• Also known as scouring sluices.
• The under sluices are the openings provided at the base of
the weir or barrage. It maintain a deep channel in front of
the head regulator.
• These openings are provided with adjustable gates. Normally,
the gates are kept closed.
• The suspended silt goes on depositing in front of the canal
head regulator
• When the silt deposition becomes appreciable the gates are
opened and the deposited silt is loosened with an agitator
mounting on a boat.
• The muddy water flows towards the downstream through the
scouring sluices.
• The gates are then closed. But, at the period of flood, the
gates are kept opened.
The main functions of under-
sluices are:
• To maintain a well defined deep channel
approaching the canal head regulator.
• To ensure easy diversion of water into the canal
through the canal head regulator even during low
flow.
• To control the entry of silt into the canal
• To help scouring and of the silt deposited over
the under-sluice floor and removing towards the
downstream side.
• To help passing the low floods without dropping
the shutters of the weir.
Canal Head Regulator or Head sluices
• A structure which is constructed at the head of
the canal to regulate flow of water is known as
canal head regulator.
• It consists of a number of spans separated by
piers and operated by gates similar to that
provided in barrage.
• A platform is provided on the top of the piers for
the facility of operating the gates.
• Again some piers are constructed on the down
stream side of the canal head to support the
roadway.
Functions of Canal Head
Regulator:
• it regulates the supply of water entering the
canal
• It controls the entry of silt in the canal
• It prevents the river-floods from entering the
canal
Silt Excluders
• Silt excluders are those works which are
constructed on the bed of the river, upstream
of the head regulator.
• The clearer water enters the head regulator
and silted water enters the silt excluder.
• In this type of works, the silt is, therefore,,
removed from the water before in enters the
canal.
Silt Ejectors
• Silt ejectors, also called silt extractors, are
those devices which extract the silt from the
canal water after the silted water has
travelled a certain distance in the off-take
canal.
• These works are, therefore, constructed on
the bed of the canal, and little distance
downstream from the head regulator.
River training works
• River training works are required near the weir
site in order to ensure a smooth and an axial flow
of water, and thus, to prevent the river from
outflanking the works due to a change in its
course.
• The river training works required on a canal
headwork are:
(a)Guide banks
(b)Marginal bunds
Guide Bank
Water creeps along the bottom contour of the Seepage water does not creep along the
structure bottom contour
Loss of head of seeping water is linear Loss of head of seeping water depends upon
the profile of weir flow, cutoff, slope , etc
Seeping water follows the path along the path Seeping water follows parabolic or streamline
along the surface in contact with the underside path
of the impervious floor profile
Did not give any significance to the pile at d/s Considered the provision of pile @ d/s end of
end weir as a must
In order to prevent underminning, reduction of Khosla replied upon exit gradient for prevent
hydraulic gradient was considered adequate underminning
measure
Khoslas method of independent
variables for determination of pressure
and exit gradient for seepage below
weir or a barrage
• For designing hydraulic structures, simple, accurate
approach
• According to this theory, a composite profile is split
into a number of simple elementary standard forms
for which mathematical solution can easily be
obtained
• Each elementary form is then treated independent
of the other and the pressures at its key points are
obtained from the solution already available.
• Then the solutions of these elementary forms
are superimposed to obtain the pressure
distribution at the key points of the entire
structure
• The uplift pressure obtained from the
superposition of the individual forms are to be
corrected because the individual pressures
have been obtained based on the assumptions
Assumptions
• The floor is of negligible thickness
• There is only one pile line
• The floor is horizontal
In actual profile above assumptions are
not satisfied, corrections have to be applied to
the superposed values of the uplift pressures
corrections
• Correction for thickness of floor
• Correction for mutual interference of piles
• Correction for slope of floor
Thus the corrected pressure at the key
points of all the piles are determined. The uplift
at any point on the floor between two pile lines
is obtained by linear interpolation of the
pressures at the key points of these two piles
Elementary Forms
• A straight horizontal floor in negligible
thickness with a sheet pile at the d/s end
• A straight horizontal floor in negligible
thickness with a sheet pile at the u/s end
• A straight floor in negligible thickness with a
sheet pile at some intermediate point
• A straight horizontal thick floor depressed
below the bed but with a sheet pile
Uplift Pressure- Floor with d/s pile
Uplift Pressure- Floor with u/s pile
Uplift Pressure- Floor with
intermediate pile
Exit gradient
Correction for mutual interferance
Problem
• Figure shows the section of a barrage. The
various dimensions and levels are in metres.
Determine the uplift pressure at the key
points, and the exit gradient. Also find the
whether the section is safe against uplift and
piping if it is founded on fine sand with
permissible exit gradient of 1/6.
For upstream pile no:1
correction
For intermediate pile 2
• d=105-97=8m
• b=54m
• α=b/d=54/8=6.75
• b1=
Problem-2018 april
• Using Khosla’s theory ,determine the pressure at C1 with interference correction(Use
Khosla’s curves)
Design of vertical drop weir
• Hydraulic calculations for fixing various
elevations
• Design of weir wall
• Design of impervious aprons
• Design of inverted filter and d/s talus
Hydraulic calculations
• (a) Maximum likely flood discharge (Q).
• (b) Level upto which water reaches during
floods (HFL).
• (c) Full supply level of the canal taking off
from the river.
• (d) Allowable rise in water level due to weir
i.e. afflux.
• (e) Lacey’s silt factor (f).
Laceys silt factor
• Lacey’s silt factor for the soil, through which
canal and river are running, is found out by
formula f = 1.76 √ (mr)
where mr is the mean particle diameter of silt in
millimetres.
Value off varies from 0.50 to as much as 1.50.
Its value is less for finer silt and more for
coarser silt or sand.
Length of the water way
• or in other words length of the weir (L) is
found out from Lacey’s following regime
formula –
• L = 4.75 √Q
Where L = Length of the weir in metres.
Q = Discharge in cumecs.
Discharge per metre length (q)
• of the weir from relation q = Q/L.
scour depth
Regime velocity (V) and velocity
head
• Reservoir level at the back of weir= level of top of
gates= F.S.L. of canal + head loss through regulator.
• Loss of head through regulator may be taken
anything between 0.50 m to 1 m.
• Height of gates = (g) = Level of top of gates – crest
level.
• (xi) Level of bottom of U/S pile U/S H.F.L. – 1.5 R.
• (xii) Level of bottom of D/S pile D/S H.F.L. after
retrogation – 2R.
Design of Weir Wall
• (i) Top Width:
• (ii) Bottom Width:
(i) Top Width:
Top width
• Top width should be greater of the three
values given as follows: