Dams and Hydraulics Structures

🌟 Comprehensive Course on Dams and Hydraulics Structures 🌟

🎓 Best-Selling Course for MSBTE, AKTU, BATU, SPPU, GTU, DTU, UTU, and Other Universities 🎓

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💡 Unit 1: Introduction to Dams (06 Hours)

• 📖 Overview and Historical Development of Dams

• 💭 Key Terminology Related to Dams

• 🏞️ Site Selection Criteria for Dams

• ⚖️ Factors Influencing Dam Type Selection

• 📃 Classification of Dams:

  • 🌍 Purpose-Based Classification

  • 🏰 Material-Based Classification

  • 🌟 Project Size-Based Classification

  • 💧 Hydraulic Action-Based Classification

  • 🔄 Structural Action-Based Classification

• 🎭 Arch and Buttress Dams: Types, Advantages, and Limitations

• 🔒 Importance of Instrumentation in Dam Safety

• 🛠️ Key Instruments: Piezometers, Settlement Cells, Pendulums, Extensometers, Seismographs, and More

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🌳 Unit 2: Gravity Dams (06 Hours)

• 🌆 Introduction and Components

• ⚡ Favorable Conditions and Acting Forces

• 🎯 Seismic Analysis and Zangger's Method

• 💨 Earthquake Effects (Horizontal and Vertical)

• 🏋️ Stress Analysis Overview

• 🏢 Failure Modes and Design Concepts

• 🥦 Construction Techniques: RCC, Colgrout Masonry

• 🛠️ Crack Control and Retrofitting

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🌊 Unit 3: Spillways (06 Hours)

• 🔍 Location and Key Levels

• 📊 Spillway Capacity and Components

• 🛋️ Classification:

  • ⚙ Operation-Based: Main, Auxiliary, Emergency

  • ⛓️ Gate-Based: Gated, Ungated

  • 🏖️ Feature-Based: Ogee, Chute, Shaft, Siphon, and More

• 📈 Ogee Spillway Design and Energy Dissipation

• 🔄 Roller Buckets and Ski-Jump Buckets

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🌱 Unit 4: Earthen Dams (06 Hours)

• 🌍 Introduction and Favorable Conditions

• 🛋️ Classification and Type Selection

• 🏗 Components and Safe Design

• 🌧️ Hydraulic (Seepage) Analysis

• 📊 Stability Analysis (Swedish Slip Circle Method)

• ❌ Failure Types: Hydraulic, Seepage, Structural

• 🌧️ Seepage Control and Construction Techniques

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🗳 Unit 5: Canals (06 Hours)

• 🌰 Introduction and Classification

• 📊 Alignment, Soil Type, Discharge, Lining

• 📐 Canal Components and Alignment Selection

• 🧰 Stable Canal Design (Kennedy's and Lacey's Theories)

• 🌍 Lined Canal Design and Necessity

• 🔒 Canal Structures: Falls, Outlets, Escapes, Regulators

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🌧️ Unit 6: Diversion Headworks (06 Hours)

• 🌍 Introduction and Function

• 🏞️ Site Selection

• 📃 Components and Safe Design of Weirs

• 🛠️ Theoretical Approaches: Bligh's, Lane's, Khosla's Theories

• 🌊 Cross Drainage Works (CD Works)

  • 🏞️ Site Selection and Types: Siphon, Super Passage, Aqueduct

  • 📝 Design Considerations

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🏆 This exciting and informative course offers in-depth insights tailored for aspiring engineers, aligning with academic standards of top universities. Join now to build your expertise in dam engineering! 🌟