Flood Control and Drainage Engineering

S.N. Ghosh

360 pages, parution le 26/03/2006 (3^eme édition)

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This book, although intended for a wide range of users, is primarily written as course material on flood control and drainage engineering for students of civil engineering with specializations in water resources, hydraulic and environmental engineering, at the final year undergraduate level and post-graduate level. This third edition of the book is thoroughly revised to accommodate recent developments in the area of remote sensing, information technology and GIS technology to deal with problems of flood forecasting, flood plain prioritization and flood hazard zoning. Apart from the above, new additions have been made to deal with design of engineering measures for flood control, drainage improvement, especially with regard to salinity and coastal aquifer management from the ingress of sea water. Design of engineering measures for floods requires knowledge of hydrology to estimate design flood and to apply flood routing techniques, reservoir planning, design and operation, theoretical background of river engineering, tidal hydraulics, drainage and reclamation engineering along with application of remote sending and GIS technology for the design of channel improvement works. The book consists of thirteen chapters, including design problem-solving and case studies to make the book practical and applications oriented and therefore useful to the student community also. The subject of flood control and drainage engineering is of considerable interest to civil engineers, agricultural engineers, architects and town planners, civil authorities, planning commissions and other government/privat organizations, non-government organizations, responsible for design of flood protection structures/mitigation measures for disaster management.

L'auteur - S.N. Ghosh

The author, presently retired, served as professor and head of the Civil Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He also served the Calcutta Port Trust as Chief Hydraulic Engineer on deputation from IIT.
Professor Ghosh is a member of several learned societies and recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship for Post Doctoral Research at Imperial College, London, UK.

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Flood problems
Estimation of design flood
Flood routing through reservoirs and channels
Design of spillways
Flood mitigation through planning of reservoir capacities and operation of reservoirs
Flood mitigation through river protection and improvement works
Flood forecasing, warning and fllood fighting
Economics of flood control, project
Design of subsurface drainage system
Design of surface drainage system
Water-logging and salinity
Application of remote sensing technology for flood control
Flood plain delineation and flood hazard assessment

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Éditeur(s)	Taylor and Francis Books
Auteur(s)	S.N. Ghosh
Parution	26/03/2006
Édition	3^eme édition
Nb. de pages	360
Format	19 x 25
Couverture	Relié
Poids	890g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415398909
ISBN13	978-0-415-39890-9