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The book has been brought out with the sole purpose of providing an easy and a simple text book on Irrigation Engineering for the students of Diploma (civil engineering) courses. It fully covers their latest syllabus and also includes objective type question-answers. This book has been mainly edited and compiled by the second author from the major book entitled "Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulic Structures" written by the first author for degree and ...
Geology, as you will read in this book, is the science of that Earth on which all of us were born and will die. It is the science of that unique planet of our solar system, which alone survives life in different forms.Physical Geology not only deals with the past, present and future of the Earth, but also with the various physical processes that are occurring on Earth including Volcanoes and Earthquakes. It will also explain the forces that cause the formation of ...
This book explains the science and hydrology in a very simple and lucid language. Besides explaining the hydrological analysis of essential topics like rainfall, and evoporation, its provides a detailed description of floods and flood control methods, including flood forecasting and emergency evacuation.
The techniques which are deployed for construction of an efficiently functioning irrigation system have been lucidly explained in this popular book. Besides covering principles and concepts of irrigation in general its components and techniques, the book covers the design and construction of Canals and Canal structures, like Barrages, Canal falls, Canal outlets, Cross-drainage works, Bridges & Culverts, etc. Detailing and Design of Storage Reservoirs and dams ...
This book provides deatailed description of the various properties and analysis of the behaviours of different types of soils and Soils deposits, over which are rested the foundations of the different types of structures, like buildings, bridges, roads, machines, etc. The design of the different types of foundations to be adopted to suit particular soil deposits and the proposed structure, without causing excess differential or total settlement or any other ...
This book provides the requisite concepts and theory along with the details of planning and designing and efficient and economical water supply system in urban as well as rural areas under different site conditions. The simple and lucid language adopted by the author has made this book highly popular amongst the students and teachers of engineering colleges in India and abroad.The book is thoroughly revised and updated covering complete Hydraulic Design of a ...
This textbook includes exposure to plant & shop layout, industrial safety, engineering materials and their heat treatment, bench work and fitting, smithy and forging, sheet metal work, wood and wood working, foundry, welding, mechanical working and machine shop practices. A greater stress has been laid on pictorial representation of various hand tools, operators and machine tools rather than giving exhaustive write up on various topics. The matter has been ...
Literature dealing with the experiments in ichthyology is scant and also scattered. In this book an attempt has been made to bring together the diverse facets of practical exercises on various aspects of fisheries in a consolidated form. The book contains 9 chapters covering practical exercises on various aspects of physico-chemical and biological characteristics of water and sediment, pond management, fishing gears, fish nutrition, health and hygiene, physiology ...