Irrigation and Water Resources Engineering
Get the full GTU study material, English & Gujarati textbook PDFs, syllabus curriculum, and solved previous year question papers.
English Book & Chapters
English Book Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesGTU Previous Year Papers
Irrigation and Water Resources Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Irrigation and Water Resources Engineering (subject code 2174001) as prescribed for Civil Infra · Semester 7 divides the course into 5 units, covering 71 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2174001)Unit 1 Hydrology
- Surface Water Hydrology: Hydrologic cycle
- water budget
- precipitation and Abstractions
- Evaporation and Evapotranspiration
- Runoff and Hydrographs: Rainfall runoff relations
- time area concept
- flow duration curve
- mass curve
- flow hydrograph
- Unit Hydrograph (UH)
- its analysis
- S-curve hydrograph
- Discharge Measurement: Stream gauging
- Flow rating curve
- Use of current meters for velocity measurement
- Estimation of discharge
- Ground Water Hydrology: Types of aquifers and properties (storage coefficient
- coefficient of transmissibility)
- confined and unconfined aquifer
- Tube wells and Open wells
- Yield from an open well
- Water logging
- land drainage
- classification of drains
- surface drains
- subsurface drains
- design principles and maintenance of drainage systems
Unit 2 Basics of Irrigation Engineering
- Crop water requirements
- Irrigation methods
- necessity of Irrigation in India
- advantages and 3 7.5% disadvantages
- techniques of irrigation water
- quality of irrigation water
- consumptive use, Irrigation requirements
- estimation of consumptive use of water by climatic approaches
- Irrigation efficiencies
- Soil moisture-irrigation relationship
Unit 3 Canal Irrigation
- Classification of canals
- Canal losses
- alignment of canals
- Design of Irrigation Canals
- Design of stable channels using Kennedy’s and Lacey’s theory
- Cross section of irrigation canals
- Lining of Irrigation Canals
- Design of lined canals
- Types of Cross-Drainage Works
- Canal Falls
- Weirs and Barrages
- Layout of a diversion head work
- Design of weirs and barrages: Bligh’s creep theory
- Design of weir using theory
- Lane’s weighted creep theory
- Khosla’s theory
- Khosla’s method of independent variables
- Exit gradient
Unit 4 Dams
- Various forces acting on gravity dam, Combination of forces for design
- modes of failure and criteria for structural stability
- High and low gravity dam, Design of high dam, Earth and Rock fill Dams: Types
- Causes of failure
- Stability analysis of earthen and gravity dam, Seepage control in earth dams
- Spillways: Descriptive study of various types of spillways Reclamation of Water Logged and Saline Soils: Causes and control of water logging
- Reclamation of saline and alkaline land
Unit 5 Reservoir planning - Investigations - zones of storage in a reservoir,
- determination of storage capacity and yield
- reservoir sedimentation Floods
- Routing and Drought management
- Concepts of return period
- flood frequency analysis
- Hydrologic storage routing
- Flood forecasting - Flood routing
- water harvesting
- check dams. 9 22.5%
Study on Android App:
