Irrigation Engineering
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Irrigation Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Irrigation Engineering (subject code 3170609) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 2 units, covering 43 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 (3170609)Unit 1 Irrigation
- Introduction- Definition
- Benefits and ill effects of irrigation
- Types of irrigation schemes
- Social and environmental considerations
- Irrigation development and water resources potentials in India
- Water Requirement of Crops- Methods of irrigation
- Macro and micro
- sustainable irrigation methods
- Various modes of application of irrigation water Crop seasons in India
- Principal Indian crops Soil-water-plant relation- field capacity
- wilting point
- available water
- Consumptive use and its empirical methods
- Irrigation requirements – Net irrigation requirement
- Field irrigation requirement
- Gross Irrigation requirement
- Soil moisture extraction pattern
- Frequency of irrigation
- Gross command area
- Culturable command area
- Intensity of irrigation
- Duty and delta relation
- Irrigation efficiency
- assessment of irrigation water
Unit 2 Diversion Works
- Diversion head works
- Weir and barrages
- Various parts of diversion head works and their functions
- Types of weir
- Causes of failures of weir on permeable foundations
- Principles of weir design on permeable formations -Bligh’s creep theory
- Lanes weighted creep theory and Khosla’s theory
- critical gradient
- Exit gradient
- Khosla’s method of independent variables
- location of hydraulic jump
- basic factors for design of weir floor Storage works: Embankment dam: Classification of dams
- site assessment and selection of type of dam, Environmental impacts of dam, Types of earthen dams
- Methods of construction
- causes of failures
- Seepage in earth dams: Location of phreatic line in earthen dam, Rock-fill dams Gravity dams
- Forces acting on a gravity dam, Modes of failure
- load combinations for design of gravity dam, and stability analysis and design of gravity dam GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Engineering Subject Code: 3170609 w.e.f
- AY 2018-19 Page 2 of 3 Distribution of Theory Marks (Percentage) R Level U Level A Level N Level E Level C Level 20 20 20 20 10 10
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