Port and Harbour Engineering
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Port and Harbour Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Port and Harbour Engineering (subject code 3170623) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 4 units, covering 25 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 (3170623)Unit 1 Introduction to Water Transportation
- Developments of Water Transportation in India
- Inland waterways
- Inland water transportation
- Development of Ports & Harbors
- Harbor site selection
- Harbor dimensioning
Unit 2 Port Planning
- Characteristics of good seaport and principles of seaport planning
- size of seaport
- site selection criteria and layout of seaport
- Dry ports
- Bulk cargo
- Transshipment ports
- Port of call
- Surveys to be carried out for seaport planning
- regional and intercontinental transportation development
- forecasting cargo & passenger demand
- regional connectivity
- cargo handling capacity of port
Unit 3 Natural Phenomena
- Water waves
- Wind rose and wave rose diagrams
- wave diffraction
- Littoral drift
- sediment transport
- Effects on Harbor and structure design
Unit 4 Harbor Infrastructures
- 9 Subject Code: 3170623 w.e.f
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