Irrigation Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Irrigation Engineering (subject code 4350607) as prescribed for CIVIL · Semester 5 divides the course into 6 units, covering 37 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 (4350607)Unit 1 Introduction & water requirement of crops
- 2.1. Necessity of Irrigation
- 2.2. Scope of Irrigation
- 2.3. Historical development of irrigation in India
- 2.4. Types of irrigation projects in India.
- 2.5. Duty, Delta, Base period, Net irrigation requirement, Intensity of irrigation, Gross Command area, Culturable command area, Crop period, Core depth, Soil-water-plant relationship, wilting point.
- 2.6. Consumptive use of water
- 2.7. Various methods of application of irrigation water
- 2.8. Benefits and ill effects of irrigation
- 2.9. Assessment of irrigation water.
Unit 2 Methods of Irrigation
- 2.1. Classification of irrigation
- 2.2. Surface and Subsurface Irrigation Methods
- 2.3. Sprinkler Irrigation and Drip Irrigation, Need, components and layout
- 2.4. Precautions and Maintenance of Sprinkler and Drip irrigation system
Unit 3 Reservoir Planning, Water Logging and Land reclamation
- 3.1. Surveys carried out for irrigation Projects and data collection.
- 3.2. Methods of calculating capacity of Reservoir
- 3.3. Area capacity curve
- 3.4. Silting of the reservoir
- 3.5. Factors affecting silting
- 3.6. Waterlogging and its Effects
- 3.7. Remedial measures of waterlogging
- 3.8. Land Reclamation and its Effects
Unit 4 Dams and Spillway
- 4.1. classification of dams
- 4.2. Factors affecting in the selection of site for the dam
- 4.3. Earthen dam, Gravity dam & its cross sections, components, seepage through embankment and foundation with its control Irrigation Engineering Course Code: 4350607 above level) Topics and Sub-topics dam and preventive measures
- 4.4. failures of earthen dam and its preventive measures
- 4.5. Types and Components of spillways and its suitability Criteria
- 4.6. Energy dissipators
Unit 5 Canal Irrigation & cross drainage works
- 5.1. Classification of canals according to alignment and position
- 5.2. cross-sections of canal in embankment with partially cutting and partially filling.
- 5.3. Most economical section of canal with its design.
- 5.4. Canal lining: purpose, material used and its properties, advantages
- 5.5. cross drainage works: Aqueduct, siphon aqueduct, super passage, level crossing
- 5.6. canal head regulators and cross regulators.
Unit 6 Evaluation of irrigation projects
- 6.1. theory for water evaluation for farming use
- 6.2. methodology for Estimation of hydraulic investment
- 6.3. Result of methodology
- 6.4. Case study of irrigation project Note: The UOs need to be formulated at the ‘Application Level’ and above of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy’ to accelerate the attainment of the COs and the competency. Irrigation Engineering Course Code: 4350607
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