What You Will Learn!
- Identify of drainage definition.
- Learn about major roles of land drainage.
- Identify of adverse effects of excess water.
- Identify of definition, problems, causes and control of waterlogging.
- Identify of major drainage criteria as agricultural, technical, environmental and economical drainage criteria.
- Learn about main components of a drainage system.
- Identify of types of drainage systems.
- Identify of surface drainage definition
- Learn about the negative effects of poor surface drainage system.
- Learn about the advantages of sub- surface drainage.
- Identify of classes of soil water and soil moisture content.
- How to determine the soil properties.
- Learn about flow through porous media.
- How to measure of hydraulic conductivity.
- How to make an alignment of the whole drainage system.
- How to calculate drain spacing for steady state flow.
- How to calculate drain spacing for unsteady state flow.
- Learn about the interceptor drains.
- How to determine the interceptor drains location.
- How to make a lay-out of sub-surface drainage system.
- How to make a hydraulic design of open drainage system.
- How to design an open cross section using Manning equation.
- Learn about the main elements must be determined for subsurface drainage system.
- Identify of design criteria for subsurface drainage system
- How to make a hydraulic design of open drainage system.
- How to design an open cross section using Manning equation.
- Learn about the main elements must be determined for subsurface drainage system.
- Identify of design criteria for subsurface drainage system.
- Use Wesseling and Manning equations to design pipe for uniform flow.
- Use Wesseling and Manning equations to design pipe for nonuniform flow.
- How design the drainpipe line with increasing diameter.
- Learn about the materials for subsurface drainage.
- How to select of drain-pipe
- Identify of pipe envelop and its hydraulic function.
- How to select an envelope.
- Learn about the structures in pipe drain system.
- Identify of salinity definition, problems and causes of soil salinity.
- Identify of classification of salt affected soils.
- Learn about the general principle of reclaiming saline soils.
- Learn about salt concentration and salt balance equation.
- How to determine leaching requirement.
- How to determine the drainage coefficient (q).
- Identify of reclamation of saline non-sodic soils.
- Identify of reclamation of saline sodic soils
- Identify of reclamation of non-saline sodic soils.
Description
This course is structured into five sections with 16 lectures, each covering a specific topic related to drainage engineering.
The sections are as follows:
Section 1: Introduction
In this section, you will identify the main objectives and the structure of “Planning and Design of Drainage Systems” course. You will identify of drainage definition, major roles of land drainage, waterlogging definition, problems, causes and control.
Section 2: Master Plan and General Layout
In this section, you will learn about main components of a drainage system, identify of surface drainage definition, learn about the negative effects of poor surface drainage system, identify of classes of soil water and soil moisture content, how to determine the soil properties and how to measure of hydraulic conductivity.
Section 3: Design of drainage systems Spacing
In this section, you will learn how to calculate drain spacing for steady state and unsteady state flow. You will learn about the interceptor drains and how to determine the interceptor drains location.
Section 4: Hydraulic Design of Drainage Systems
In this section, you will learn about how to make a hydraulic design of open drainage system, how to design an open cross section using Manning equation. You will learn about the main elements must be determined for subsurface drainage system.
You will learn how to use Wesseling and Manning equations to design pipe for uniform and nonuniform flow, how to design the drainpipe line with increasing diameter. Learn about the materials for subsurface drainage, how to select of drainpipe and select an envelope and learn about the structures in pipe drain system.
Section 5: Soil Salinity and Land Reclamation
In this section, you will identify of salinity definition, problems and causes of soil salinity, identify of classification of salt affected soils. Learn about salt concentration and salt balance equation, how to determine leaching requirement and the drainage coefficient (q), Learn about the general principle of reclaiming saline soils.
Who Should Attend!
- • Civil engineering students
- • All personal involved in water engineering